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Lorenzo Costa: The Argo (detail of a panel painting c. 1480–90)  Civic Museum, Padua, Italy     I.    As everybody knows, the Ἀργοναῦται we...

D. H. Lawrence: self-portrait (June 1929)   It was Nietzsche, of course, who first put forward the idea that artists and philosop...

First I had a flu-like virus that left me with a dry ticklish cough and a dry stuffy nose. This mutated into a chest infection, for w...

Orizuru (origami cranes) Those who love stats or genuinely believe that numbers have occult significance, will be interested to l...

In his 1886 preface to the second edition of The Gay Science , Nietzsche speaks of the gratitude of the convalescent and by which he...