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“Days of 1896” [by C. P. Cavafy]
Days of 1896 He became completely degraded. His erotic tendency,condemned and strictly forbidden(but innate for all that), was the cause of it:society was totally prudish.He gradually lost what little money he had,then his social…
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Tom Davis: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________ Homage to Helen Maynor Scheirbeck I used to tell the story of how Helen, when I was so young I hardly knew who I was, would call us…
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Who said it? (quote of the week 2025, no.4 )
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” "You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them." "History is an agreed-upon lie." "The leader deals in hope (as does the dope dealer )"…
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“Ulysse” – Josette Baïz and the gifts of today’s un-classic ballet [By Tracy Danison]
“Ulysse”, performance Groupe Grenade. Photo © LéIo Ballani O! Muse! apart, the only words I remember from the Odyssey, blind Homer’s adventures of Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, is the epithet “rosy-fingered Dawn”.…
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“Chorus Sacerdotum: from Mustapha” [by Fulke Greville]
O wearisome condition of humanity!Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity;Created sick, commanded to be sound.What meaneth nature by these diverse laws?Passion and reason, self-division cause.Is it the mark…
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Michael Drayton’s great sonnet
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That…
