My graduate thesis involved collecting English translations of the Tao Te Ching and using the various translations to concoct narratives. In those pre-Google days, I was translating the original text character by character using an old weighty character dictionary. Now, you can literally read the entire 500 word classic in the original classical […]
From a letter dated 1990. Possibly from a dream? Click the image to read.
Point 1: Individual Love is ahistorical: It is not an aspect of history.
Point 2: Individual Love is in fundamental opposition to the State: “Lovers tend to negate a social order that contests more often than it grants their right to live.”
Point 3: Individual Love is incompatible with duration: “the union is never stabilized except in […]
This page has one of the most beautiful columns of text I have seen on the web in quite some time.
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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