Yeats, Rainbow Connection, and days of perpetual tourism
Michael GallagherLondon on a less dreary day Sitting here in London on a dreary Christmas morning, my wife and I lingering in bed reading and writing and studying, I figured it…
Quotes: Conrad, Foucault, Barthes, Simon, Manovich (and Booth’s Poverty Map)
Booth's London Poverty Map papered onto a wall. I am not going to provide too much description of how these quotes found their way into this post, except to say…
Ulysses, Imagination, and Reorienting Infinite Space
I always much preferred this pseudo-Trotsky pose of Joyce to his later years. From time to time, I believe I just want to post quotes or passages that have inspired…
Merton and the Modern World
"Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond…