“I don’t know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.” Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why In my last post entitled “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf”, I proposed a solution to the... Continue Reading →
Feast of Saint Valentine
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although... Continue Reading →
The Bard in Aria
I used to think YouTube was just for funny cat videos and recordings of babies doing things their parents thought were cute. I must fully repent my previous ideas. I have made a few finds of musical treasures on the internet in the last year, but none so great as my find of a production... Continue Reading →