journal

Just below us, on a rocky outcrop, sits the Burgkirche of Raron, one of a series of extraordinary buildings (churches, town houses and daring bridges over terrifying precipices) designed by the gifted sixteenth-century architect Ulrich Ruffiner. On its own merits the church is well worth a visit, though it is

There must be mountains inside those clouds and the sea still exists where the port once was. A bitter rain attacks the last, Byzantine well-heads, and the custodian eyes you suspiciously as if you might steal that acanthus fragment or postcard of a saint— as if understanding were possession. The

… is a threat. Daniel Handler recommends the personal canon, not cannon. (“A cannon is a mounted weapon used for firing heavy ammunition, usually spherical projectiles. Canon refers to either a group of works in a particular area of study or art or a collection of religious rules.” source EasyBib, a

Shklar presents Johann Gottfried von Herder, the first Romantic: We know that we exist, and that God is, not because we think, but because our whole being tells us that it is so. We are directly and inevitably conscious of existence, just as we cannot even imagine nothingness. There can

Asked to write a short intro for Avi Duckor-Jones, I found a column he wrote on the Affirm Press website just over a year ago for the publication of his novel Max. Called “The battle of living in duality,” it deals with the duality of being the son of a

It is risky to outsource human thought to machines that lack the capacity for such thought. — David B. Auerbach, Meganets, 2023, p. 239