Forgetting to Remember Old Lessons Hard-Won, or: Read Emerson Now
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Study, circa 1888. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Nature and Other Essay…
I ought? I owe it to Whom?
The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin, circa 1851. Public Domain via Wikimedia. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedri…
What we do in life echoes in eternity, or: There is much to learn from the pre-Socratic philosophers
Héraclite by Johannes Moreelse, c. 1630 (Public Domain vie Wikimedia). The Fragments of Heraclitus by Heraclitus My ra…
Vintage ephemera, or: Even the 1880s had B-grade horror
The Nightmare by John Henry Fuseli, 1781 The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins My rating: 2 of 5 stars Wilkie Collins ha…
On Narcissism or: How I learned to stop narking and love other narcissists
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903. Public Domain via Wikimedia . Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to…
Trivial nonsense, or: Work will dominate your mind if you let it...
Frankie at Pawtails Rural Retreat (and Frida in the background) When she chewed my Nokia recharge cable, I bought a sma…
I think, therefore, I am... Hey, what's that shadow?
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre meet Ernesto Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960. Photo: Public Domain . Irrational Man: …
Instead of Hemingway's iceberg, think Gabriel's peephole...
Steamers on the Magdalena River. Photo: Clímaco Calderón (1852-1913), Wikimedia , Public Domain. Love in the Time of C…