The past is not dead; it is people who are sleeping. The current night and daymares that we are having…
“Every notion of progress is refuted by the existence of the Iliad.” – Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and…
“And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look…
“I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged…
V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in…
“Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this…
I saw them when going out, Matted down like roosting geese In the grass by the lake Where they were…
“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.” – Frederick Nietzsche,…
For years ever since the gold cloth in the sand, and our loving there, cradled in the high dunes, blue…
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of…