Welcome to the homepage of anachronism.

We are all anachronistic on occasion.. We act as though we belong to a different time, that is, the time we grew up in, or, in my case, the time which I unfortunately missed by being born a few years too late. Still, I love the music of the sixties. I feel that people were not paranoid at that era, humans were more open to one another, and life was somewhat simpler..

This page does not deal with the 60s as history, but as style, a frame of mind which sought racial and gender equity (“I have a Dream”), respected individual freedoms, and sought creativity rather than conformity (“I’d rather be a forest than a street”).. and distrusted the Government’s involvement in the affairs of other countries. It was also the period of free love. These issues will be the concern of this page.

Now, I believe that we are living in a new 50s.. which was the ultra conservative era. So, as it will recede, a new 60s will resurge. Rather than nostalgia, this page celebrates the dawn of that new era..

First, some articles about love:

The Experience of love, the picture from within:

Segments from John Keats' Letters to Fanny Brown
Segments from: Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse

The encounter with death is one of the saddest episodes in a love experience. The Funeral of Shelley by Edward Trelansy describes the death of the Great Romantic Poet, who died holding Keats’ poems in his arms. Article includes segments from Mary Shelley’s Autobiography describing the tragedy, segments from Leigh Hunt’s writing about it, and of course, the wild reaction of Byron to this untimely tragedy..

Love mythologies:

The story of Narcissus as narrated by Julia Kristeva in Tales of love.

Where do I begin? Some love songs

(with chords):

-San Francisco (flowers in your hair)

-king of the road By Roger Miller

-Daydream by lovin spoonful

-california dreaming by Mamas and Papas

-Taste of Honey By the Beatles

-What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

-Wooly Bully By Sam the Sham

- Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole
- This guy's in love with you by Herb Albert.
- Satin Doll by Duke Ellington.
- Fever by Elvis Presley
- Silent all these years by Teri Amos
- Crazy by Willie Nelson

- fool on the hill by the Beatles

- strangers in the night by Frank Sinatra

Occasionally, I write short articles about issues which interest me. I include here some of them:

Article: why is horror fiction popular?

Segments: Some imagine that psychoanalysis deals with sick people solely.. It equally deals with sick groups and sicker cultures… here are some illustrations:

A discussion of some Freudian defenses:

Denial happens when one refuses to deal with a difficult emotional subject, imagining that it is not there. This segment deals with the denial of death.
Reaction Formation is what happens when one calls a grape sour.. This segment deals with P O W s in Korea during the war.
Isolation is a defense system which relies on isolating a subject outside, so that one does not have to deal with it. This segment deals with Deconstruction and the text.
Rationalization happens when one finds excuses to justify harmful decisions and acts. This segment deals with racial issues.
Various Defenses discussed in one place.

Nazik Al-Malaika, is a famous poet, critic, and short story writer, in the Middle East. There are two pages dedicated to her work here, an English page , and an Arabic page . Both include a brief autobiographical essay, some of her short stories and poems.

I do have a non pornographic linx page.. which includes some interesting

weird sites.

If you have any advice, suggestions, or questions, feel free to email me