Siris

  Kyu Sakamoto, "Ue o muite arukou". As the translation in the video notes,  Ue o muite arukou  means 'I look up as I walk...

In the second poem,  Zaum  (literally, 'beyond-mind') is the name for a style of Russian nonsense-poetry, and bezumiye  is Russian f...

 Attitude coordination is a major aspect of spoken language, regardless of other aspects of meaning. All social animals can be taught simple...

 Today is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church. From his Easter Cycle sermons, on the sacrament of reconciliation: Note t...

 * Ori Herstein & Ofer Malcai, The Procedure of Morality (PDF) * Joel J. Miller,  Protesting the Decline of Reading , at "Miller...

 Brad Skow has a very interesting post at "Mostly Aesthetics",  Adult Encounters with Children's Stories , about re-reading Je...

 James Chastek has  a nice post on Thomas Aquinas's answer to the question of why Christ wrote nothing, and it ties in to something that...