From now on, if you’re lazy or too busy with work but still want to further your education, you can do so with the help of the ever mighty Google. The Berkeley University in California has start...
Is pain-inflicting, self-mutilating "art" worthy of such name? Can we not sympathise with another person until we literally wear his shoes and physically experience his sufferings? ...
Medieval poetry, in spite of its literary images, was in truth quite pathetic in describing a woman. Naturally, all women were ‘fair beauties’, but, like in painting, poetry rarely went mu...
http://www.therubaiyat.com/ Complete Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I know some verses relatively well in Russian, but haven’t found them in the English translation yet. One of my favourite is this (...
Blessed be the times when medieval monks simply ‘continued’ the chronicles and annalles that had been started by other monks. Today the family of the monk who started the chronicle could v...
A few pearls of wisdom from the Memoirs by Casanova: – My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without...
The first post in the series titled Exercises in Loneliness that gave the start to a book under the same name compares the directos' and the writer's views...
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut studies the 20th century children's crusade in the context of World War Two and Dresden Raid...
The beauty of Prevert's saying J'aime mieux tes levres que mes livres is sadly lost in the English translation... but perhaps Man Ray's famous Kiss rayograph renders the meaning...
Los Cuadernos de Julia blog ows its title to the 1997 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa and is an open writer's notebook....