Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood. The armies kill themselves, And in their blood an ancient evil dies – The action of incorrigible tragedy. And you, my semblables, behold in blindness That a new glory of new…

The problem with a steel boat is that the crisis curve starts out gradually and quickly becomes exponential. The more trouble she’s in, the more trouble she’s likely to get in, and the less capable she is of getting out of it, which is an acceleration of catastrophe that is…

So he spoke, and stirred the anger in the breast of Aeneas. He went against Idomeneus, strongly eager for battle, Yet no fear gripped Idomeneus as if he were a stripling, but he stood his ground like a mountain wild boar who in the confidence of his strength stands up…

The theory of the unmorality of art has established itself firmly in the strictly artistic classes. They are free to produce anything they like. They are free to write a “Paradise Lost” in which Satan shall conquer God. They are free to write a “Divine Comedy” in which heaven shall…

My self, my Sepulcher, a moving Grave, Buried, yet not exempt By priviledge of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs… -Samson Agonistes, John Milton We are, as we have found out this Sunday, an Easter people…