from The Greek Experience (1957), by C.M. Bowra , p. 112f from Ch. 5, The Good Man and the Good Life : The best solution was not to ...

from Reflections on the Spirituality of Gregorian Chant . Translated by Dom Gregory Casprini and Robert Edmonson. p. 35f Unction is de...

In the few months since I've started writing here again I have also read a great deal more of. . . well, there seems no decorous way of...

Of the outside world first, when you are young, pay as much attention as you need to understand yourself. Have adventures, though know they...

There is some resurgence of faith in the notion that children raised with the full-time attention of one parent are better off. I too think...

I came across the late Uwe Scholz's ballet to Mozart's C minor mass on the Classic Arts Showcase a couple of years ago. (I miss the...

Neither keep yourself weak nor abuse power. The sailboat that has not caught the wind is neither safe itself nor harmless to others. Unc...

From The Discarded Image , by C. S. Lewis: We are enjoying intellectus when we 'just see' a self-evident truth; we are exercisin...

There are days, maybe one a week, on which I try to catch up on news in the Classics field in some detail. On those days without fail I com...

Neither be so abstemious that you are always hungry nor eat to excess. In both cases your appetite will control you and impede your work, e...