Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
What is peace?
This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends can be reached, particularly striking...
From pantheon to palate
A piled up commentary of poets on poets: Heaney on Mandelstam on Dante. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), who died in uncertain...
A country or a farm
A profound distinction, in my view, between a sum of parts and a sum of gifts. And does this just...
Sun-darkening arrows
Describing the shower of arrows at Thermopylae falling so thick and fast that they blot out the sun's light. Leonidas,...
A dam snake
Infrastructure likened to a curling serpent, whereas most serpentine similes I've seen have been speed-related. See Tarka the Otter,...
Merry Christmas dear kind readers
Dear Kind Readers,
WritingRedux wishes you a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and in any case a hefty dose...
The study of vanished things
I recall my sorrow when I learned that the enchantingly named Nonsuch Palace vanished almost without trace, morphing from a...
The piling up of beauty
Clive James' spent decades working on his splendid translation of Dante, sometimes in 'back burner' mode, other times full on. ...
As cold as …
A cool simile for coldness, since jelly by its nature needs to be kept so. See also a superb
Ripening writing
In this comment on Zbigniew Herbert's Report from the Besieged City (title of both a poem and a poetry collection),...
Definitions of philosophy I
This irreverent definition of philosophy made me smile, though with the current invasion of Ukraine, 'the finding of bad reasons'...
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