Near the end of last year, I sort of dropped out of the online world entirely. I had a lot of plans and projects, but then God laughed at them, and after my daughter was born I scrapped them all. <...
2025-11-15 04:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Three Kinds of Human Nature
Three Kinds of Customs
Three Kinds of Natural Law
Three Kinds of Government
Three Kinds of Language ...
2024-09-02 20:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a list of books referenced in my commentary on The New Science (other than Scienza Nuova itself, of course). I will add to this as we go through the work.
The Decline of the We...
2024-08-24 14:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Kicking off a Reading and Commentary series on an incredibly seminal work, which may contain a skeleton key to our past, present and future.
2024-08-10 23:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostThreads. Networks. Signs and wonders. Who is Thomas Pynchon? Who are you?
2024-07-19 19:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostOh, the labyrinth that is Thomas Pynchon! My advice: start here. But one measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Themes: Entropy, Codes, Information Theory, Threads, Towers, Pentacost . . . Part II ...
2024-06-25 20:36:10 +0000 UTC View PostI want to briefly make a case against the proponents of IQ. Notice that I don't say that I am making a case against the scientific concept of the Intelligence Quotient--although I should note that ...
2024-04-09 19:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been said that it is a symbol of the imagination--or of consciousness--in its capacity to reflect the formal reality of the visible world. It has also been related to thought, in so far ...
2024-03-21 00:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostPlease join me as I ramble about my two favorite holiday stories: (after a brief prelude on Dickens' A Christmas Carol) the 1993 film Groundhog Day, and James Joyce's 191...
2023-12-25 03:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostCormac McCarthy as a cosmic optimist.
2023-11-24 22:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostFall Out Boy has made a very cringe cover of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," the original itself already a piece of canonical cringe. But that's not what it sounded like to me at 8 years o...
2023-11-19 05:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on "An Introduction to the Symbolism of Western Music or, The Harmony of the Spheres vs. the Emancipation of Dissonance." This playlist and commentary will serve as a nice preview.
<... 2023-11-11 22:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostWritten in letters of blood and fire.
2023-10-28 19:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis is one of the best "bottom tier" book lists you'll find.
R.I.P Cormac.
2023-10-15 17:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostI- Religion, Metaphysics
Let's make God laugh.Â
2023-09-10 18:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's take a look at Susan Sontag's influential 1966 essay, "Against Interpretation."
2023-07-08 14:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostLiterature is not a subject of study but an object of study.--Northrop Frye
Whenever I have a good idea, I find somebody else has had it before, and expressed it better.
A few ...
2023-06-07 03:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was recently a guest on the podcast There Will Be Books to discuss Cormac...
2023-06-06 12:39:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 1950's, the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet proposed a new type of novel. This phrase might sound redundant, since "novel" means "new," but not in French since they call the novel a ...
2023-05-06 20:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies for taking so long to get this one out. Let's take a look at Borges first collection of prose fiction.
2023-04-24 04:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostI know it's been a slow couple months, and I want to thank everybody who's still here supporting me. (The House of Asterion has relocated twice this year, and it's labyrinth is stalked by a baby in...
2023-04-04 04:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Only the 1900 excavation of the Royal Palace of Knossos in Crete, which may have been the fabled ancient "labyrinth," and the discovery of the buried heresies in the gnostic codices at Nag Hammadi,...
2023-02-18 22:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Author & podcaster Brad Kelly returns to talk Art of Darkness, the new McCarthy novels, the tarot in Blood Meridian, the Bung-Plug of the Void, and more.
2023-02-07 01:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostSome recommended reading for McCarthy heads, or anyone interested in the minute details of literary influence.
2023-02-04 18:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostMan can embody truth but he cannot know it.—Yeats
I. Ex Libris
As if gazing down a corridor, observe
The great replete shelves repeat themselves
(as, Iâ€...
2023-01-09 12:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostA short reading for a cold spell. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all patrons!
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses ag...
2022-12-25 01:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Blood, Time, and the Cosmic Dance.
2022-11-27 20:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
