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 The Absence of the Muse by Clark Ashton Smith   O Muse, where loiterest thou? In any land Of Saturn, lit with moons and nenuphars? Or in wh...

 Jeremy Bentham's Church of Englandism and Its Catechism Examined  gets a passing mention in Newman's  Loss and Gain , so I went bac...

 * Tim Sommers, Two Sources of Objectivity in Ethics , at "3 Quarks Daily" * Cansu Hepçağlayan, Political friendship as joint comm...

 Today is the feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church. From The Story of a Soul , Chapter XI: But how shall I show my love, si...

 Renato Casaro -- arguably the greatest film-poster artist of all time -- died today . Perhaps more than anyone else he established what peo...

 Today is the feast of St. Jerome, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Everybody always remembers St. Jerome's crotchetiness, but he had a ...

 Ballad of the Sun by G. K. Chesterton   O well for him that loves the sun, That sees the heaven-race ridden or run, The splashing seas of s...