For my brother Rather, I would have liked that we had been golden siblings, arm-in-arm along the lakeshore, or hair flying on white bicycles, past the haunted mansions, past the boat clubs and peaks of clean sail fluttering on blue sheets of broken diamonds. No words are needed when there is much to say, but [...]
In the music of Shostakovich, the two sides of the twentieth century are revealed—the absurd and the tragic. It is impossible to tell in his works whether the absurd is the tragic or the tragic is the absurd, just as the events of The Century made it impossible to distinguish between the two. Whatever hope [...]
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. —T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land When you were [...]
It may be the case of the US of A that the rescue of the country from its subversive, nation-hating, professional patriots will require, in effect, anti-American measures that ultimately and most profoundly express the very soul of America at its best, once more recovered and rejuvenated. “Listen to me, Mr. Ambassador, F— your parliament [...]
If, on your next trip to Vienna, you set out to understand the personality of this lovely world-capital-that-is-not-a-city, there are three must-sees during your time here. If, however, you are lucky enough during your visit to meet a member of Vienna’s high aristocracy, you will find all these elements personified in a predictably off-beat, refreshingly [...]
Oh! What a Revolution! And what a heart I must have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! —Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France On the 20th of July in the year 20– of our Lord, Savior and shadow Secretary of War, the city of Detroit officially wrested itself free from [...]
“The debasement of Man has gone too far—quite too far.” The voice was that of Sir John Carew Eccles, the Australian ray of light who was to set the world of neurology and neurophysiology on fire as the most clear, not to mention poetic, dissenter in the Mind-Brain debate. “The Nature of Man is the [...]
It has been said that the Germanic soul and the forest are one in the same thing— the mythological Forest that contrasts the splendid isolation of man in his solitude against the infinity of nature. Deep roots are untouched by frost. —J.R.R Tolkien It has been said that the Germanic soul and the forest are [...]