Category Art
The dome and the egg
Il Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence is a masterpiece church. I read a story in John Kay’s book Obliquity [1] about the history of the dome that I find worth sharing with you here in case you don’t already know it. Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the architects competing for the commision […]
Be Drunk
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters; That’s our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time’s Horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows You own, you must get drunk without ceasing. But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with Virtue, as you choose. But get drunk. And if, […]
Thermopylae/Θερμοπύλες
Translation Honor to those who in their lives have defined and guard their Thermopylae. Never stirring from duty; just and upright in all their deeds, yet with pity and compassion too; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, again a little generous, again helping as much as they can; always speaking the […]
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