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Posted on April 1, 2018April 2, 2018

Only love can break your heart. Only love can save you. Only love can damn you. Neil Young, Dante, Purgatorio, the power of love.

I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…

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Posted on February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

T.S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday

Originally posted on The Broken Tower:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…

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Posted on September 13, 2017

“Hell is where the damned stay, immobilized by their choices” – Rowan Williams on The Divine Comedy, TLS, September 12th 2017

From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…

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Posted on April 18, 2017April 18, 2017

Hannah LeGrand (and Dante) on sloth, thoughtlessness, intellect and reason 

At Comment Magazine, an essay by Hannah LeGrand on “thoughtlessness, sloth, and the call to think.” It is well worth reading and reflecting on. LeGrand begins with Hannah Arendt’s famous account…

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