The useful uselessness of art
Everyone knows the usefulness of what is useful, but few know the usefulness of what is useless. Zhuangzi Human beings
Category: Asides
The mailman’s authority
‘Alert always to “Wittgenstein’s distinction between all the trivia you can talk about, and all the essentials you can’t,” Steiner
Literary novels and the Counter-Reformation
The priests of the Temple of Literature have been issuing instruction, as the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was
Memories worth having
Is it worth it A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy’s birthday
Theatre as solidarity
We ask no money for our performances. We ask for the public to contribute with food products with extended shelf
Montaigne as a blogger
‘There should be some legal restraint aimed against inept and useless writers, as there is against vagabonds and idlers. Both
Pixelated death
Bad guys in movies used to come to sticky ends, in a bloody hammering of bullets or falling off tall
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