Two Miles High
  • A Tale of Two Women
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  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
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  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
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  • Sacred Prostitute
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  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
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  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Vampires in Venice
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  • Women in Trousers
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Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved - the film

  • Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023 • 1 min read
Immortal Beloved - the film
Immortal-Beloved-DVD
Memory and desire: is it better to forget the past or to always remember it?

Memory and desire: is it better to forget the past or to always remember it?

The older I get, the more I find embarrassing memories from my past popping up uninvited. Apparently I never will be able to forget some things, especially how I treated women when I was in my Twenties. The Persistence of Memory, as Dalí might say. Was I so bad? No
Aug 15, 2026 4 min read
Why Martin Luther's death was so controversial...

Why Martin Luther's death was so controversial...

I think it's fair to say that when most of us die, no one outside family actually cares very much, because we know that life steamrolls on. I include political figures here, because does anybody really miss Dick Cheney or Pope Francis? Conservatives tried really hard to make
Aug 8, 2026 3 min read
The apples and peaches of immortality

The apples and peaches of immortality

In Judeo-Christian Genesis, an apple symbolizes The Fall, even though the original texts said "fruit." The switch is attributed to medieval translators who wanted to pun on malum/malus (apple/evil). Anyway, by eating that apple, Adam and Eve lost their immortality and they died. And so
Aug 1, 2026 3 min read
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  • A Tale of Two Women
  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
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