Life simile
What a surprising simile for life - at least in its easeful moments - likening it to a familiar tool...
An unmapped river
A marvelous image for human destinies, usually well hidden no matter the efforts we make to discern them. Since this...
Ever-victorious life
In this vivid story set in war time Russia, a Communist officer is billeted in a humble household to give...
Do men drown in regret?
Do not drown and do not regret. Just jettison, while you can, 'the stupidities and meannesses, self-delusions and deceits', and...
Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
Trauma recollects forward
Harold Bloom refers here to Esther in Dickens’ Bleak House. I’ve been turning over in my mind his statement that...
Fine writing, fine doing
My earliest impressions of Keats were as a languishing poetic type, not a man of action. Now, after getting to...
Poems for my family 006 – Cavafy
This poem has been in my mental saddlebags for about a quarter of a century. I can't remember how I...
A gardener to the roots
This gardener, who tends the castle grounds of the monstrous pile of Gormenghast, is driven by something more than the...
Life & understanding
Food for thought this one. Does it mean you are more alive when you are most baffled by it all?...
Life wasn’t made to be …
This quotation has become a companion, a reminder that life is – or at least should be - bigger than...
Out into the world
Maxim Gorky's childhood was a bed of harshness softened by rays of light and kindness, principally from his long-suffering grandmother. ...
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