A Flower
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tag: nature
Book Review: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
Postmodern Pygmalion
“‘Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland’: this is the soundest counsel. But what is this flight? How are we to gain the open sea? For Odysseus is surely a parable to us when he commands the flight from the sorceries of Circe or Calypso — not content to linger for all the pleasure offered to his eyes and all the delight of sense filling his days.
The Fatherland to us is There whence we have come, and There is The Father.”
– Plotinus
Light and Darkness
“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
– John 8:12
The Ruin of the Empire
“These wall-stones are wondrous —
calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants
corrupted. The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.”
– “The Ruin”, an Anglo-Saxon poem by an anonymous author
Book Review: The Death of Evolution by Wallace Johnson
“It is always amusing to see experts suffer a setback.”
– Nicolás Gómez Davila
Judith Butler’s Gnostic Nonsense
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Joseph De Maistre Against Critical Race Theory
“An indomitable pride incessantly leads them to overthrow everything they have not made; and to create anew they separate themselves from the principle of all existence.” – Joseph de Maistre
Snowball Fight
“But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”
– Matthew 19:14