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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...

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...

Image designed by wearphilosophy As a Nietzschean, I've been steeped in a courageous philosophy that celebrates the idea of li...

Cover of the 1908 edition  of Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla   I. The concept of the Outside is as important to me now ...

Jean-Michel Zazzi: Friedrich Nietzsche (2019)  artsper.com To read what one commentator writes, you'd think that Nietzsch...

Two female readers of the Penguin edition of  D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960) showing little interest in ...

Alicia Dunn: Red Dawn No. 5 (2017) aliciadunnart.com I. If Passion Ends in Knowledge then Nietzsche is the Best-Read Man in Town ...