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The hijacking of religion

Just a quick musing with recent links for now, rather than a post with more developed thoughts. Religion may always have been used as a political instrument as it became … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 10 Comments

Isabel Magalhães: O Mundo ao Contrário

Found this lovely painting by way of UrShalim‘s blog. “O MUNDO AO CONTRÁRIO” Isabel Magalhães is a gifted Portuguese artist and painter. She dedicated this 2005 stunner – “The World … Continue reading

31 March, 2007 · 6 Comments

Rules of grammar

Calling all writers, readers and grammarians. Curt at CSTF features a great A Few Good Resources for Writers post, commenting on his favorite styles of writing and drawing upon Strunk … Continue reading

23 March, 2007 · 7 Comments

Arabic words in English

From Arabic words in English here, I found a few surprises and some I already knew. I wonder if the origins of a few of the words below are contested … Continue reading

16 February, 2007 · 15 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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