Marking this day with the superb artwork of Eric Ravilious.
Remembrance Day
Celebrating Ennio Morricone: The Secrets Behind His Genius
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (27)
Social note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, that shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (26)
Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less. True slavery is being condemned to abstinence: Tantalus, not Hercules.
Ken Hensley
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy: Philo of Alexandria
The about to be published The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy has a free preview available, fortunately it’s the Philo of Alexandria entry.
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (26)
As I have told you in earlier installments, I was emulating the poet Milton by spending my youth in seclusion, meditation, and study in order to perfect my craft of writing as he did; my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance has has thrust me into the world in the most cavalier manner; my system is still in a state of flux. Therefore, I am still in the process of adapting myself to the tension of the working world.
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (25)
There I learned only that all four of his daughters had names beginning with A, a highly practical course, in his view, because in this way all the things on which that initial was embroidered could pass from one to the other without having to undergo any alteration. They were called (and I immediately learned those names by heart): Ada, Augusta, Alberta, and Anna.
COSMOS + TAXIS 8:10+11
Nectar of the gods
Maple syrup is the gastronomic analog of pharmaceutical grade crack cocaine. But not just any maple syrup: I was educated in this by a Québécois chum of mine who sent me two items — Beurre d’érable and Tire à l’érable — that disappeared within days — neat, right out of the jars. This was recently followed with a bottle of Escuminac late harvest, a gift from someone else. Without doubt I will have to work my way through this producer’s other variants. I have the sense that I’m falling down the rabbit hole of maple syrup much like I have done in the past with single malts and some grand cru wines. The sweetness profile is not cloying or cheaply sugary, and has far more going on flavour-wise than most other sweets — resistance is futile even to those who claim not to have a sweet-tooth. If one knows what one is doing, this syrup is a very versatile cooking and baking ingredient.
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