Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon

Salinger is just an amazing stylist of everyday language, amazing at conveying what he wants to convey, casually without any unnecessary fla...

We went to see the National Theatre's Vanya yesterday (HD broadcast at the movie theater) -- a one person show with Andrew Scott playin...

I think Shakespeare, in the early seventeenth century, was thinking (or noticing) acts of self-interruption, and what they could do. When a...

Scientific American has a brief  article  about the Sleeping Beauty Paradox. I think that thinking about it may be illuminating for the cent...

Here’s  an amazing, haunting poem by L.S. Bevington, from 1876: Twilight Grey the sky, and growing dimmer, And the twilight lulls the sea; H...

Joke title, referring to Kafka's idea of another Abraham.  I am thinking of Kōbō Abe in fact as another Kafka.  Because I was teaching W...

William James in 1884: " Our mental life, like a bird's life, seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings." He...