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Illustration by Fareha Islam in The Stuyvesant Spectator  (2026) [1]      Opening Remarks    A recently published post on the maxim (and sho...

Can You Resist the Call of the Void? (SA/2025) Based on Ernst Stückelberg's painting of Sappho (1897) [1]     I.    Apparently, the urge...

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

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes ... [1]     It's disconcerting enough when Phoevos the cat sits and stares at me, particulary if ...

Meine Rosen (SA / 2024)     I.    As is well known, Zarathustra often speaks cryptically.   Take the following sentence, for example, spoke...

  Unfortunately, there's a personality type in the world known as a grievance collector ... [1]   The grievance collector remembers eve...

Charles Penrose  The Laughing Policeman (1922) [1]     "A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man doth scarce smile a l...

  Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Hills with Cedar (1941) Oil on canvas (16 x 30 in.)     Let us beware of thinking that the world is a living...

 Joan Priego: Contortionist  [1]   When Nietzsche suggested that the secret to a fulfilled and happy life was to live dangerously [2] , I ...

  D. H. Lawrence: Fauns and Nymphs (1927)    I.    "Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live : what is needed for that is to stop bra...