If literature is to

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without isms, is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on … Read more

By choosing better feeling

By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don’t want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your Broader Perspective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational … Read more

Knowledge of Rome must

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. … When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, … Read more

Absolutely delightful, at first

Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing … Read more