If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move,
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
each era produces lovers who don’t know love can be parodied…
Read MoreCleopatra reputedly bathed in honey. The Magnum Opus, immortality…
Read MoreA hearse. Covered in lichen and Spanish moss. It reeks of swamp water and bayou…
Read MoreClimb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence…
Read MoreNobody can deny that there are serious dangers in Alpine climbing…
Read MorePrawn fantails waving at my face like I fainted from a too-tight corset at a Hapsburg opera house…
Read MoreRemember you can have what you ask for, ask for everything…
Read MoreChekhov death fanatics abound. His last sip of champagne. The whole thing about the popping of the cork…
Read MoreThe Word was always there, and so, inside my body, I never felt alone. Now, postchurch, I turn to poems and songs in place of Bible verses…
Read MoreThe adverse impacts of restricting fossil fuel exports on the Russian economy would be overwhelming…
Read MoreThe idea that each of us has a singular voice, and that it places a stamp of authorship on our compositions, is of course corollary to the prohibition on plagiarism…
Read MoreShould we begin each morning like this? Yes, we should. Fat heads in the past, clear minds ahead…
Read MoreIt is the Donkey’s acceptance and internalisation of the judgement from on high that is so shockingly modern as it prefigures the mentality of victims in witch hunts, show trials, struggle sessions and other kinds of brain washing…
Read MoreMarcel Proust represents many things. Chief among these perhaps, especially for non-French readers, is quantity…
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers…
Read MoreAll men are equal on their holidays: all are free to dream their castles without thought of expense, or skill of architect…
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