Pleasure lies chiefly in anticipation and retrospection, the experience itself being necessary to ensure that neither is spoiled.
Jun 272019
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Apr 052019
It is the progressives, though they sneer at the Christians, who are most thoroughly convinced of grace by faith.
Mar 292019
Those who suffer for their art usually make you suffer for it too.
Feb 252019
Fiction: imaginary people, real problems. Sports: imaginary problems, real people.
Jan 312019
American cities are dotted by hulks of jagged, rusting metal, abandoned, seemingly without function, surrounded by endless expanses of concrete. This is the public sculpture.
Jan 112019
Musical taste ossifies early for the same reason mathematicians peak young.
Nov 302018
A savage can be a proper host: it takes civilization to be a proper guest.
Nov 082018
Good artists steal, great artists are stolen from.
Nov 072018
conspiracy : party :: cult : church
Sep 252018
Only atheists take the Bible literally.