Siris

  Introduction Opening Passage:  'And so they've killed our Ferdinand,' said the charwoman to Mr Švejk, who had left military se...

Today is the feast of St. Monnica, most commonly known as Monica.  St. Augustine and Monica by Charles Tennyson Turner   When Monica's y...

 The Lotus by Toru Dutt  Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long...

 * Ashley Cullins, That Was My Idea! How Hollywood Is Avoiding Story Theft Claims * E. Sonny Elizondo, Kantian Eudaimonism (PDF) * Ted Gioi...

 Dov Fox has a paper, What Will Happen If Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions? (PDF), in which the argument is made for conscience pr...

 An ens rationis  or 'being of reason' is the traditional name for what is conceived on the model of a being but cannot actually exi...

 La Mer by Oscar Wilde A white mist drifts across the shrouds, A wild moon in this wintry sky Gleams like an angry lion's eye Out of a m...