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Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
I posted Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “Flannery and Dante” the other day. Here is another poem by O’Donnell, this time dealing with Flannery O’Connor and St Thomas Aquinas. “Flannery and St…
Yesterday I posted about a now-lost Naxos sampler CD which included a version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” I now long to hear. It also included Messiaen’s “O…
I recently came across the word “sonder” Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that…
Poe would be 210 if he was alive today, which would be a surprising development for all concerned. And presumably today will see the appearance of the Poe Toaster at Poe’s Baltimore…
This is a wonderful book I heartily recommend, indeed re-reading the review I hope the warmth of my recommendation is clear. The balance Susan Mat strikes between mastery of the…
Here’s an extraordinary character, Lionel Walter Rothschildfrom the Nigeness blog a few years back: Lately I’ve been browsing in the biographies [of The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors]…
A while back I posted about what I called the Inspirational Imperative; the pressure to craft suffering and distress and setbacks into more-easily-digestible, feelgood stories of “inspiration.” The need to…
Séamus Sweeney 