A book of my writings - book reviews, articles, archival essays, satirical and humorous pieces. Available through
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Below is the Table of Contents, with annotations:
INTRODUCTION 5 The author describes her life up and down the East Coast, and talks about the differences
between Boston and Birmingham.
NOTES FROM THE COMPOUND WORLD * - Written in 1977 when CJ was living in Boston, this humorous piece on language was published in the journal Verbatim.
STARVATION OF A WITNESS: Simone Weil 13
METHOD, LITERATURE AND EDUCATION 22 Review of William Walsh's The Use of Imagination: Educational
Thought and the Literary Mind. Published in Towards, 1981.
REQUIEM FOR THE FILIOQUE 27: Published in Towards, 1987.Towards, a magazine devoted
to the thought of Owen Barfield, was once rated the 'top ten" of little literary magazines.
A NEW LOOK AT THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX 33 An unusual look at the Oedipus story - published in the Journal
for Anthroposophy.
ON THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 39: Re Roy Moore in Alabama
DOMESTIC WARFARE: Re Feminism 44 Review of F. Carolyn Graglia's "Domestic Tranquillity"
PHILOSOPHY AND AMERICAN REGIONAL CHARACTER 49 Semi-humorous philosophical piece about the problems of
thinking in the USA.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND TRANSCENDENC: Kathleen Raine 58
OWEN BARFIELD’S POETIC DICTION 66
OWEN BARFIELD IN LITERATURE AND LIFE 78
TO TAKE A STAND: 89 New Agers and Southern Agrarians
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER: Cain and Abel 97 - Unusual look at the Biblical story - Journal for Anthroposophy
A PECULIAR GENESIS: Karen Armstrong 107 Review: Yuk!
KABBALAH AND CREATION 111 Jewish mysticism and modern physics
TWO STEINERS: George Steiner and Rudolf Steiner 116: George Steiner accuses the Gospel of Johnm of antisemitism.
Caryl discusses some of the insights from Rudolf Steiner to refute it. Journal for Anthroposophy
THE ORDER OF TIME: John Lukacs
* Review of
The Thread of Years -
Modern Age
RESPONSE TO SEXUAL PERSONAE: Camille Paglia 150- Published in The University Bookman
LORD OF THE HOLLOW DARK: Russell Kirk 156 Published in the St. Croix Review
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF CHANGE [SATIRE] Billyclint Hillyton 160 Satirical piece on the Clintons'
sex change operations
BIBLIORIFFS I,II, III: Humorous riffs on literature and life 166 - Humor and disquisition on the nature
of charm
REVIEWS PUBLISHED IN THE BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY – 1999-2001 191
Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage 191
"The Parting Glass" 195
The New York Diaries: 198
A Journey with Elsa Cloud. Leila Hadley. 201
On the Hills of God, by Ibrahim Fawal. 204
Staring into Chaos: Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization. 208
Bonnie Roberts: To Hide in the Light. 210
THE ARCHIVES SECTION 213
The L-Word: The Marie Jemison Papers 215
The Unfulfilled Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement: A Response to the "Birmingham World Office Files" Collection 222
The Johnston Family Papers 233
The Potential of the Archival Essay (with Reference to the Johnston Family Papers) 237
The John N. Lukens Archive 256
Problems and Promises of Christian Intellectualism 262
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER IN BIRMINGHAM 282
