
Frigg and Tyr
This is impiety? Did I insult the immortal gods, and will they sentence me to wander the seven seas, as did Ulysses, until I die? I think...
This is impiety? Did I insult the immortal gods, and will they sentence me to wander the seven seas, as did Ulysses, until I die? I think...
Homo homini lupus est It means I’ll cut your throat I’m a wolf on your neck And I’ve played with your Blood Homo homini lupus est It...
A settlement in Wiltshire, lost in the mists of time. In spring, there is a fertility rite whereby a virgin is taken to the old stone...
As a follow up to yesterday’s piece on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), there’s a notable democratic catch in the film. The film’s...
An elusion is a triple pretence; so, for example, there is a mental illness where a person pretends to have a mental illness—there is the...
There’s an observation from biology that “the organism continues to do what granted it success in the past”; hence, in the family...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) features Jimmy Stewart in his typical role as a muddled everyman—Stewart almost always plays the same...
I always sleep with my window open, even in the mid-winter—the fact is that the heat induces rot and decay. The only way to really...
My penis is on the Internet. I didn’t give him permission, but he went online anyway—now he’s everywhere. I heard he even harassed the...
I met an old man with a long white beard, as in oriental lore. I said: “I’ve been quite unwell, in a fever for some time.” He said: “Yes....
This is my baby —and I love it It is my proudest Work Yet it goes ignored “We like your other work” They say Never my baby. Still, it’s...
This is the SA-80 rifle—never point it at anyone, even if you believe it to be unloaded (a tip for life). If you hand it to another man,...
You have declared yourself a house divided Agreed to star in a play directed from abroad To sink the nation to division, besmirch the...
For a time, I thought that military training is equivalent to meditative training. The recruit is taken—as a self-absorbed...
Anarchists come in two varieties: amiable duffers and impulsive destroyers—they’re opposites to each other. The first type is exemplified...
Nietzsche hated Carlyle and the two men were basically opposites, although both are taken as inspirations for the right today. Carlyle...
Peaky Blinders and Hegel: these go together as follows—Hegel has an idea, really a commonsensical idea, that you only understand...
The film Zulu (1964) is a British perennial—it’s the type of film you might watch after you got tanked with the rowing club one night....
In the first place, the man he was in an altercation with had “no breath in him”. To understand what he means you have to know that...