Jan
23
I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact - uniquely correct - word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do.
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least [...]
Jun
24
I’m out of books to read. I’ve read everything I have, some things two or three times. Today I reread Douglas Coupland’s Life After God. These are the two passages that struck me, compellingly, again.
Our conversations are never easy, but as I — we — get older, we are all finding that our conversations must [...]
Mar
22
A major find in Western Cypress, in an already-looted tomb near the village of Kouklia, in the coastal Paphos area. The area contained several ancient cemeteries that belonged to the town of Palaepaphos, site of a temple to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love, believed to have risen from the waves of the nearby sea).
The [...]