Turn and face the strange…
About a year ago I wrote a post Time might change me, but I can’t change time. It…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat XIII: the long waits of winter
XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat XII: the thaw, the flight
XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. Wallace Stevens, 13 ways of looking…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat XI: people who live in glass coaches
XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat IX: servants of Utopias.
IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat V: the beauty of the bureaucrat
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
Ragnarök
A.S.Byatt has written a short and puzzling book, Ragnarök: the end of the gods (2011, public…
Six asides about Vaclav Havel
I. Culture forms chaotically from spirit. Havel begins his essay, or talk, “Six asides about Culture”…
Poetry: to redeem or to love the world?
Featured on aldaily.com today is an article from The Atlantic with the provocative title of “why…