Metropolitan Musing
In the past I would have walked the streets until my legs gave out. But one of them gave out …
In the past I would have walked the streets until my legs gave out. But one of them gave out …
“Whereas the typical Occidental hero is a personality, and therefore necessarily tragic, doomed to be implicated seriously in the agony …
“It is not that the divine is everywhere: it is that the divine is everything.“—Joseph Campbell, Oriental Mythology “As long …
“The trick is,” Xenon was saying, “to find the right books to read.” This was a long time ago. Xenon, …
“For it is one of the curiosities and difficulties of our subject that its materials come to us for the …
I first posted this piece back in August. I don’t remember how many hits it earned, but it wasn’t many. …
“But beyond that [the normal daylight working of the intellect] there is a thinking in primordial images—in symbols that are …
“Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment …
“This kind of coordination between constituent cells in a colony was taken a stage further, probably between 800 to 1000 …
Prologue. I’ve aimed high in this post. Too high. No matter, in aiming for the stars maybe I’ll clear the …