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”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised Zeus couldn’t bring himself to admit the obvious, but I understood. How could he choose [...]
Quite brilliantly, John Ruskin wrote of the Seven Lamps of Architecture; the seven lamps ,”lamps” meaning that which illuminates the mind or soul of sacred architecture. They are: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience; and when combined, they enhance devout practice and provide spiritual vitality in the sacred spaces they fill. Ruskin first [...]
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an unrivaled hold on the imagination for more than twenty-five hundred years. The chain of tradition [...]
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”Whether such pronouncement represented genuine alarm or rhetorical posturing is difficult to say, but the authorities certainly took slander seriously. On may 28, 1649, the Parlement of Paris tried to restore order in the capital by threatening to hang anyone who produced ”libelles” . In June, it nearly hanged a lawyer, Bernard de Bautrau, for [...]
Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? ”The reason for the paradox is that the left hand’s way of knowing things is different from the right hand’s way of knowing. The difference can be discerned in the design of a piano – the lower notes are to the left, so that [...]
”Shakespeare’s plays mirror the debate of his time between those who believed that the macrocosm of the stars influenced the microcosm of human life, and those who dismissed astrology as “excellent foppery.” The phrase comes from Edmund in King Lear, who comments on his father’s tendency to blame human evil on the stars. But Edmund is [...]
His economic ideas belong in the bone yard, and his understanding of organizational decision making resembles that of ”a camel is a horse designed by a committee ” school. But his ideas on aesthetics and art, likely a byproduct of his critique, match the sweep with some depth. Indeed, Marcuse in the end thinks that [...]
Wearing a hat can make you a bit mad. Or so tradition has it, and British royalty are known to be sticklers for tradition. The felt hat industry has been traced to the mid seventeenth- century in France, and it likely migrated into England around 1830. The upper crust of British society has long been [...]
Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the sake of focusing on the issue of truth, that the lie really is for our [...]
“All Verbs: ream, spin, veer, span, cross, ram, peel, charge, pitch, verge, switch, shoot, slide, cram, goad, clash, cleave, fetch, clamp, lean, swap, butt, crook, split, jut, hack, break, stroke, stop.“ — Lozano notebook page dated 1964/67. Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll with a little poetry and art. It had to start somewhere. Herbert [...]
