Flowers of the Mind 1. (zářĂ, week 3, 2021)
Michael Oakeshott, Marina Tsvetaeva, Elena Shvarts, Russian Ark, St Petersburg
A task: from Milosz to me
This morning I read this poem. “A task” by Czelaw Milosz, chosen randomly from his collected …
Cantos from a cage
Today I am reposting this reflection on the true heritage of Ezra Pound, Cantos from a…
Taking time with Szymborska
I have established several practices for the New Year to make it a more mindful, culturally…
Fragments from the Burning Archive: Mikhail Bakhtin
I plunged again into my white box of old handwritten index cards today, and pulled from…
The kaleidoscope of 2020: year in review
A tradition that I have embraced on this blog over the last few years has been…
culture / history / literature
Cultural collapse: Delhi 1857
Today, I am reposting this response to William Dalrymple’s magnificent The Last Mughal: the Fall of…
Axel’s Castle, a mirror and an encyclopaedia
Today I am reposting this post from April 2, 2018 that reflected on some of the…
A solution to political decay: the ordinary virtues of governing well
I am reposting this reflection on the response to political decay in the midst of the…
An interlude on Solzhenitsyn
Prophets are despised in their own country, and now and then I am tempted deeply by…