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'Ursprache' beats 'weltschmerz' to win American spelling bee Weltschmerz and the Ursprache From eudaemonist.com, a quotation from Paul Zanker's The Mask of Socrates: "Zanker describes the photograph…
April 6 two years ago: Ideas and Art The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes… — Wallace Stevens, from Notes…
Glory Season "…his eyes ranged the Consul's books disposed quite neatly… on high shelves around the walls: Dogme et Ritual de la Haute Magie, Serpent and Siva Worship…
VALE George and Esther Szekeres From the weblog of David Michael Brown, Jr.: Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:30:40 -0400 From: Alf van…
Today's birthday: Peter O'Toole "What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?" "It's clean." Visible Mathematics, continued — From May 18: Lindbergh's Eden "The…
Final Arrangements, continued Kismet From yesterday's Log24 — Clive Barker's Weaveworld: Another of the angel's attributes rose from memory now, and with it a sudden shock of…
Visible Mathematics "Earlier, there had been mapping projects in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al-Khali, the Empty Quarter in the south and west of the country…. '"Empty" is…
Lindbergh's Eden "The Garden of Eden is behind us and there is no road back to innocence; we can only go forward." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Earth Shine,…
Ineluctable On the poetry of Geoffrey Hill: "… why read him? Because of the things he writes about—war and peace and sacrifice, and the search for meaning and…
Ideas and Art, Part III The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes… — Wallace Stevens, from Notes Toward a Supreme…