Tag: Orwell Window

Dark Fields*

A date in the previous post suggests a flashback to March 11, 2014, and a post on that date titled "Dark Fields of the Republic"— This uncredited translation of Plato is, Google Books…

Gullible's Travels

The President of the United States on the Sony hacking  in his Dec. 19 press conference: "But let’s talk of the specifics of what we now know. The FBI announced…

Jews on Style

"A window unto  the world"?  "The classical  style"?

Dark Fields of the Republic

This post was suggested by today's previous post, Depth, by Plato's Diamond, and by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's recent fanciful fiction about Plato. Plato, Republic , Book II, Paul…

Window

From Jim Holt’s Aug. 29, 2008, review of The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff “Orwell thought ‘good prose is…

Theory

Review: Hilton Kramer and Tom Wolfe on art and theory “To lack a persuasive theory”— Hilton Kramer A post from the day of Hilton Kramer’s death— March 27,…

Literary Field

An image suggested by Google's observance today of Mies van der Rohe's 126th birthday— Related material: Field (Japanese and Chinese Character) Literary Field Matthew 13:44 See also yesterday's…