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On A Side Note...   Thursday, August 28, 2003   related article...Telegraph | News | No holiday cash? Hide at home [Italians pretend to go on holiday] 4:28 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this! Sunday, August 24, 2003   Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | A virtuoso muse "She was Beethoven's inspiration, Goethe's companion and caught the eye of Napoleon..."Who," asked Napoleon Bonaparte, "is that fuzzy young person?" She was Elisabeth Brentano, known simply as Bettina. Actually, Napoleon was not among her conquests, nor was he her type. She did not jump into his lap, as she did with Goethe, or croon her name into his ear, as with Beethoven, or go for intimate walks, as with Karl Marx. Napoleon did not dedicate a battle to her, as Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms dedicated songs and the Grimms an edition of their fairy tales. But, even at a distance, Bettina Brentano drew comment...collected famous admirers (Liszt, Schumann, Emerson)...She became a muse to beleaguered progressives; she was branded a communist before the Communist Manifesto; she campaigned against antisemitism. She got away with two extraordinary and dangerous political books entreating the Prussian throne to liberalise because she was a woman, and because the Prussian king was an admirer...In a century rich with extravagant characters, Bettina remained unique. She was everyone's muse, she craved love from every quarter, but she was never other than her own person. To echo what was said of another extravagant Romantic, Walt Whitman: her greatest creation was herself." 7:29 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this! Saturday, August 23, 2003   American Scientist Online - Who's in Charge? Neurologists think that the will is an intervention from the spirit-world, or we have no freedom, says Daniel Dennett. They’re wrong... 5:00 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this!   City Journal Summer 2003 | What Use Is Literature? by Myron Magnet 4:59 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this!   City Journal Summer 2003 | What Use Is Literature? by Myron Magnet 4:58 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this! Friday, August 22, 2003   Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. Absolutely agreed. 12:23 AM | I GOTTA talk to you about this! Tuesday, August 19, 2003   Teach No Evil 1:59 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this!   Teach No Evil 1:58 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this! Saturday, August 16, 2003   Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake !! LOL 1:16 PM | I GOTTA talk to you about this!