LOTUS-EATERS

or Lotophagilətŏfˈəjīˌ, a fabulous people who occupied the north coast of Africa and lived on the lotus, which brought forgetfulness and happy indolence. They appear in the Odyssey. When Odysseus landed among them, some of his men ate the food. They forgot their friends and home and had to be dragged back to the ships. "The Lotus-Eaters" by Tennyson has become a classic of English poetry.

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books on: Lotus Eaters  - 502 results

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The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
Book by David Wakefield, Chi-Tsai Feng; University of Hawaii Press, 1994
Subjects: China--Fiction, Footbinding--China--Fiction
...pearl went out the door with the lucky guy, but the luckiest of all was the restaurant owner. Once word got out, the crab eaters outnumbered the crabs, and he had a grand opening to beat all grand openings. Now, although this was weird, it was not the...
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The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Stephen Rachman; Rutgers University Press, 2006
Subjects: Cannabis, Hemp
...delights of an Ethiopian existence; I grew rapturous over the remembered ecstasy of mud-baths and lunches upon succulent lotus-stems by riversides where Nature kept free restaurant for pachydermatous gentlemen forever. Ed 20 was a man of strong social...
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Better Government Personnel: Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel
Book by Lotus Delta Coffman, Luther Halsey Gulick; Whittlesy House, McGraw-Hill Book, 1935
Subjects: Civil Service Reform, Civil Service--United States, United States--Officials And Employees
the same fallacy, much vilification of public employees as "tax eaters," "payrollers," and "bureaucrats" is, however, indulged in by certain groups in certain areas. The evidence indicates...
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Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
Book by Robert A. Palmatier; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Food--Dictionaries
...O.E. . The term lotus-eater MWCD: 1832 comes from...Africa, the land of the lotus-eaters. The people there spend...The modern lotus-eater is at best a daydreamer...The home of the modern lotus-eaters is Lotusland HDAS...
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Dublin's Joyce
Book by Hugh Kenner; Indiana University Press, 1956
Subjects: Joyce, James--1882-1941--Criticism And Interpretation
...three episodes, "Calypso"-- "Lotus Eaters"--"Hades", parallels that...episode has passed through Calypso, Lotus-eating and Hades phases. There...for instance, at U49/45, "Lotus- Eaters" at U50/46, "Hades...
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journal articles on: Lotus Eaters  - 46 results

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Rotberg, Howard. Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada's Lotus Land
Journal article by Mark Stevens; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 19, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada's Lotus Land (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...The Political Culture of Canadas Lotus Land. by Mark Stevens Exploring...The Political Culture of Canadas Lotus Land. Brantford, Vancouver: Canadian...Using Alfred Tennysons poem "The Lotus Eaters" as a metaphor for Vancouvers culture...
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Homer's Eutopolis: Epic Journeys and the Search for an Ideal Society *
Journal article by Annette Lucia Giescke; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003
...example of social organization. The Lotus Eaters, for instance, are seemingly benign...succumb to the temptation of the lotus would be nothing short of "a regression...can certainly be argued that the Lotus Eaters exemplify a basic sort of...
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The Rhetoric of Drugs. an Interview
Journal article by Jacques Derrida; Differences, Vol. 5, 1993
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...the victim does not die: Yet the Lotus-eaters did not harm the men of our company...fertile land: All who ate the lotus, sweeter than honey, thought...stay there in the company of the Lotus-eater, picking the lotus and forgetting...
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Appropriation and Alienation at the Gastronomic Stage: The Marxist Dialectic of Humanism in Alberto Moravia's la Ciociara
Journal article by Silvia Stoyanova; Italian Culture, Vol. 28, 2010
Subjects: Advertising agencies--Social aspects, Food shortages--Social aspects
...economic organization, as well as, in the case of the lotus-eaters, the nostalgia for childhoods leisure: "a regression...the force that transformed Odysseus companions into lotus-eaters, wild animals and pigs. The consumption of food designates...
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Rereading 'Ulysses': "Ithaca" and Modernist Allegory
Journal article by Stephen Sicari; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 43, 1997
Subjects: Allegory--Usage, Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Setting (Literature)--Usage, Ulysses (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the one described at the end of "Lotus Eaters" when Bloom inadvertently gives...than was described at the end of "Lotus Eaters." There, "Mr. Bloom...about "Throwaway" at the end of "Lotus Eaters" comes back to haunt him as the...
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Among the Lotus-Eaters
Magazine article by Marc Siegel; The Nation, Vol. 276, February 17, 2003
Subjects: The Piano Tuner (Book)
Among the Lotus-Eaters. by Marc Siegel The Piano Tuner. By Daniel Mason. Knopf...The Odyssey: My men went on and presently met the Lotus-Eaters, nor did these Lotus-Eaters have any thoughts of destroying our companions, but they...
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Man with the Hat
Magazine article by Herb Young; IAJRC Journal, Vol. 44, June 2011
...People Time / Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus-Eaters / Gone / Every Time We Say Goodbye / The Way You Look...Billy Strayhorns Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus-Eaters, a title almost as large as the chart and note that...
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Making Chocolate [Better Than Chocolate]
Magazine article by Karen X. Tulchinsky; Herizons, Vol. 13, March 2000
Subjects: History & criticism, McGowan, Sharon, Motion pictures, Thompson, Peggy
...almost didnt get made. The journey began in 1993. McGowan and Thompson had just completed their successful film, The Lotus Eaters, which won several prestigious Genie Awards. Basking in their achievement, McGowan and Thompson went on a "corporate...
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Why the West Has Won: Freedom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; The American Spectator, Vol. 34, November 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Democracy, Freedoms, Military history, War
...their poor soil back in Greece. Indeed, their leaders warned that any Greeks who stayed might become lethargic "Lotus-- Eaters" in so wealthier a natural landscape. The Anabasis makes it clear, however, that the Greeks fought much differently...
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Editor's Note
Magazine article by Niamh Creely; Film Ireland, Autumn 2011
...follow-up to Once; producers extraordinaire Ted Hope and Christine Vachon; Gar OBrien, the new Fleadh programmer; Lotus Eaters, a feature debut by Alexandra McGuinness; Rod Stoneman stirring discussion on the cult film The Room; a retrospective...
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An Oasis of Palm; JOIN THE LOTUS-EATERS ON A TINY ISLAND OFF TUNISIA
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 18, 2006
An Oasis of Palm; JOIN THE LOTUS-EATERS ON A TINY ISLAND OFF TUNISIA. Byline...Tunisia, known as the isle of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, when...honeyed fruit of forgetfulness. Todays lotus-eaters come to relax on miles of...
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End of the Lotus-Eaters; Realism Has Returned to a Reluctant World
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2002
Subjects: Bush, George W.
End of the lotus-eaters; Realism has returned to a reluctant world Byline: Tony Blankley...being believes that Mr. Bush means what he has said. The day of the lotus-eaters is ending. This rediscovered ethos of realism is brilliantly (and...
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The Lotus Eater; Lawrence Hoy Is Passionate about All Things Lotus - and His SENSIBLE Car Is an Elise
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 21, 1997
The Lotus Eater; Lawrence Hoy Is Passionate about All Things Lotus - and His SENSIBLE Car Is an Elise. Colin Chapman, the late, great car designer and founder of Lotus had a simple recipe for making a car go faster. He said...
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Music Was the Only Thing That Mattered; Twenty-Five Years after Their Last Liverpool Gig, Lotus Eaters Are Returning to the City. Peter Coyle Speaks to Laura Davis
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 17, 2009
...after Their Last Liverpool Gig, Lotus Eaters Are Returning to the City. Peter...cheerful. Not only does he have the Lotus Eaters homecoming gig to look forward...gig." Twenty-five years on and Lotus Eaters are back in the same venue...
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TUNISIA: A North African Realm of Ancient, Modern Delights
Newspaper article by Jean Mcduffie Nowak; The Washington Times, August 9, 1998
Subjects: Tunisia
...has been known as the Land of the Lotus Eaters since the Ithacan king stopped on...troops go ashore. Enchanted by the lotus flowers the natives gave them to...lure continues with modern-day lotus eaters charmed by opulent hotels...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lotus Eaters  - 8 results

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Lotus-Eaters
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOTUS-EATERS or Lotophagi l tof ji , a fabulous people...the north coast of Africa and lived on the lotus, which brought forgetfulness and happy...to be dragged back to the ships. "The Lotus-Eaters" by Tennyson has become a classic...
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Water Lily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and art. The seeds of the sacred lotus can remain viable after long periods...food; however, the fruit of the lotus-eaters of classical literature has been...nettle-tree of the elm family. Lotus is also the botanical name for a...
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Lotophagi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOTOPHAGI see lotus-eaters . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Jerba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sq km), SE Tunisia, in the Mediterranean Sea. Fruits are grown on the island, once identified as the land of the lotus eaters. Its extensive Roman remains and beaches make the island a popular tourist destination. Jerba also has an international...
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Onomatopoeia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...through its very sound. For example, in "Song of the Lotus-Eaters" Tennyson indicates the slow, sensuous, and langorous life of the Lotus-Eaters by the sound of the words he uses to describe the land...
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