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good Lord, deliver us. When Dante called his cantos Commedia he saw, from a posture of comic dénouement, what troubled T.S. Eliot’s tragic sense: “in spite of” the torments that tore at Christ’s very core, “we call this Friday good.” Although Dante’s utter lostness at the onset of the Inferno coincides with that unspeakably bleak Friday, by the time he summits Mount Purgatory and ascends heaven’s ladders to the highest celestial sphere, the action resolves in Easter Resurrection. In his letter to Cangrande, Dante contends that, in addition to their respective, distinctive d...

[Chronique #8] Le tocsin est devenu un business model à l'ère du clash. Le Brexit et l'élection de Trump en ont prouvé l'efficacité. Et Marine Le Pen l'a bien saisi.

I'm 29, I hitchhike and love street food – but my next holiday will be a cruise Lockdown life has made this adventurous traveller long for a journey at sea Harriet embracing the cruise life between bouts of seasickness I’m hardly your stereotypical cruiser. I’m not a retired couple on the hunt for fly-and-flop around the Caribbean. I’m only 29, I don’t enjoy black tie and I have limited tolerance for Americans. If I were feeling pretentious I might describe my travelling style as ‘wannabe local’ – translation, I hitchhike and eat questionable street food. So it might surprise ...

Source-to-Pay, B2B payment valuations in an inflationary world Why revenue growth without profit is no longer acceptable. For those of us that knew inflation — and I believe that is anyone that is 60+ — we can probably recall stories of our parents or grandparents never throwing away anything. My dad never threw away tinsel to put on the annual Christmas tree and my mother never threw away aluminum foil. You never forget lines for gasoline during the OPEC 1970s era. For most of us in the working world, we have lived in deflationary times — the last 40 years. David Foster Wallace’s sto...

Hans Christian Andersen (Left), Culture Club/Getty Images // Charles Dickens (Right), Rischgitz/Getty Images No matter which popular author you disdain, you're bound to find yourself in good company: There's no love lost between these writers. 1. Gore Vidal vs. Norman Mailer The infamous feud started when Vidal compared Mailer to Charles Manson. When Mailer later punched Vidal at a party, Vidal still had the wherewithal to zing his enemy, saying, “Once again, words fail Norman Mailer.” Here they are flinging barbs back and forth on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971. Mailer had headbutted Vida...