salle des pas perdus – poitiers
hall of lost footsteps fugitive hot whispered words scabrous ancestral songs * judgments from the court of love whose lust-drunk troubadours inspire my spirit: * a joy for [...]
History
Wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing…
“Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty!” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Why do writers drink? asks Blake [...]
An iconic irony
So, Charles Krafft – his Disasterware, including seemingly sardonic anti-Nazi ceramic creations, hailed as iconic for years – is outed as a Holocaust denier. Red faces [...]
“History claimed them…”
Lives shaped by large, historical events can end up trapped in them forever. This was certainly true in the past, but I wonder whether it still applies in the present, when [...]
Valentine’s Day Oracle – The Shining Ones
Phædriades – the shining ones – a pair of cliffs enclosing the sacred site of Delphi, centre of the Hellenic world, and place of Apollo’s temple where [...]
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