“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an
Category: Culture
When I’m…62
“Don’t let them ever do this to you.” Those were the pearls of wisdom my 80-year-old mother told me after her second back surgery, just
Swing Baby, You’re Platinum!
Sitting in my Asylum office, relishing a drizzly, dreary and dank day – the kind of day we rarely get here in the summer in
Musical Interlude – Gabriel Fauré – A Happy Deliverance
“Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by
Looking for “The Appian Way” and Resisting the Ugliness
The Appian Way or Via Appia Antica in Rome is one of the most famous ancient roads. It was built in 312 B.C. by Appius
A Matter of Taste
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right
Dispatches from the Asylum 