Ivan’s Singer
Image Source: Franz Riss Skomorokh in a village, wikipedia Noone knows for sure how Ivan the…
On a requiem
Image Source: Requiem Kyrie Master Chart, from Vienna Review This morning I listened to an old…
5 reasons games add to culture
As well as being a serious student of literature and history, and the occasional listener to…
Akhmatova’s Agony
Late last week I rearranged my desk and put in place several mementoes of my single…
Parables of Shame
Franz Kafka was a poet of shame and guilt. So writes Saul Friedlander in his Franz Kafka:…
The appeal of fantasy
When I am not studying serious literature or reflecting on the state of the world I…
A list of writers of fragments
A blog is a fragmentary artwork, or at least it can be. So the blog’s aesthetic…
The glass half full
For my post tonight, a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, prompted by Wallace…
The Golden Fleece of Nothingness
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Herbert Draper, The Golden Fleece 1904 Out of curiosity and a certain…
Allusiveness
When I used to play World of Warcraft – happy nights, even if not the best…