Michael and Christa return with the second part of their conversational recap on the three powers. This one covers the evil of diets and the moral limitations of your survival instinct, the nature of truth and fact, the age of the Spirit and the reformation of the affections, and more.
Continue reading →In August of 1867, Fyodor Dostoevsky made a special stop with his wife Anna Grigorievna to see a painting. We know this from an entry she made in her diary: On the way to Geneva, we stopped for a day in Basel, with the purpose of seeing a painting in the museum there that my […]
Continue reading →Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is up there with Brian Wilson’s Smile as one of the greatest works of art never properly completed. But Dead Souls, at least to me, is so much more troubling because of the circumstances of its failure to launch. Dead Souls was intended to be a literary trilogy paralleling Dante’s […]
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