Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: "Do you mean," Sir Giles said, "that the thing never gets smaller?" "Never,...

Using his protean imagination, Henry seeks honor continuously by creating a series of beautiful moments both for himself alone and for himse...

Twilight Twilight, the mother of thought, above the waves of clouds like Halcyon settles slowly down; tranquility of mind like oil upo...

* Nice website on the evangelical (and here and there it includes some other) resistance to the Nazis . * A Kickstarter project for a Jan...

I'm teaching Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia today, and started wondering a bit about some of her family. Her youngest sister, the Electre...

Titian, Presentation of the Virgin Mary . Today is the feast of the Presentation of Mary, of course; the Gospel reading is interesting, a...

In the news recently: Calling attention to the 20th century novel “Lord of the World” which focuses on this spirit of worldliness which le...