A Confession
“In his characteristic Quixotic way he had predicted a sale of thirty million copies of his Don Quixote; the world …
“In his characteristic Quixotic way he had predicted a sale of thirty million copies of his Don Quixote; the world …
“My things cannot become popular; whoever thinks of that or exerts himself to that end is in error. They are …
One day we’ll do away with them. Or not I suppose, but woe unto us if we don’t. We’ll finally …
“If you think that I am sad about this last year, about disappointments, about the painful loss of love; if …
“… [W]hat are the foundational texts of Western civilization, that can bolster our belief in the almost boundless power of …
“It was Christ’s distinction between the temporal and the spiritual, adumbrated in the fifth century by St. Augustine’s City of …
“—for simultaneously, like giants plunged into the years, they touch epochs that are immensely far apart, separated by the slow …
There’s a tale, epic in proportion as all culture-encompassing opuses are, which has yet to be told. I see it …
I forget exactly what he had said. Something about subscribing to the doctrine of the amended reformation of Martin Luther, …
Oh Jesus…. I’m sitting in a Cafe enjoying my second Guinness while a tall young fellow sporting a hedgerow mohawk …