It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never be really understood…
The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness. Cezanne
Emmons, Henry (M.D.) and Alter, David (Ph.D.), Staying Sharp: 9 Keys for a Youthful Brain through Modern Science and Ageless Wisdom, Simon and Schuster (Touchstone Books), New York, 2015 (280pp.$25) Despite the haughty platitudes about American “exceptionalism” in health care, ours is a nation plagued…
I am happy to announce a new feature on my website. “Perspectives” will bring to my blogs features that interest me from current news, literature, art, social science, philosophy and other topics that catch my eye. These days, political campaigns feature big money, television, questionable…
I am happy to announce that I have just contracted with Mr. William Reeve of the Virginia Kidd Agency to represent my work. I look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with this long-established and well-respected literary agency and am particularly pleased to be…
The hearth is as dangerous as alcohol. W.B. Yeats
Im Kampf zwischen Dir und derWelt, sekundiere der Welt: In the struggle between you and the world, take the side of the world. (Kafka’s Notebooks)
MacGregor, Neil. Germany: Memories of a Nation, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015 (606pp., 420 illustrations, 8 full-color maps, $40). Neil MacGregor is director of the illustrious British Museum on Russell Square in London. Previously the director of the National Gallery, his books “The History…
The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and describe and then make credible much of American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing…
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please. Karl Marx “18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”