Monthly Archives: July 2017
Tragic Manhood
Still reeling from having seen British auteur Christopher Nolan’s latest cinematic gift, Dunkirk, I am reminded of the following statement from Yukio Mishima: The average age for a man in the Bronze Age was eighteen, in the Roman era, twenty-two. Heaven … Continue reading
The Entrance of Suffering
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.” ~Leon Bloy In Lawrence Durrell’s Justine, the first of The Alexandrian Quartet tetralogy, the narrator recalls having once been told, … Continue reading
Roaming Millenial Just Roamed into My Heart
Though I have heard her nom de Internet from alt-right bloggers, I had never watched one of her videos until recently. (Full disclosure: I did not know that RM was a woman–and quite a woman.) The above video appeared in the … Continue reading
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