Reality Recognition
One of the big takeaways for me when I read Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae was the notion, common throughout all time, that women are akin to nature/earth/chaos (cyclical and unpredictable) and men are akin to civilization/sky/culture (linear progression and stability).…
The Terrifying Power of Words
I sometimes wonder if I fill my world with too many words: the ones on the screen, on the page, on my tongue, in my ear. Banishing some might me do me good, but which ones? It’s not as straightforward…
The Joy of Reading
It is an honest-to-goodness rainy day. I used to write rather often about theory vs. reality, but these days, I feel like I’m just trying to discern what reality actually is. I do know that if I want to feel…
Dubris Light
“It’s all trickery and ambiguity. A single thread is like a spider web, pull and it’s gone, but try to free yourself and you get even more entangled. And the base and weak rule over the strong.” — Boris Pasternak,…
