Month: March 2007

In his The Tragic Sense of Life, Miguel de Unamuno identifies consciousness as the perception of suffering. He writes: And how do we know that we exist if we do...

Reading Angelic Mistakes: the Art of Thomas Merton, edited by Roger Lipsey (2006). The heart of the book is the collection of images of Merton’s inkbrush ...

For a long time I have collected rocks from nearby that looked interesting, not from an interest in geology but to watch them weather nicely. Some prop fence po...

A conceit of the Romantic period was the sentimental interest in ruins, what the British writer Rose Macaulay might call the “pleasure of ruins.” Wo...