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My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!

Powerwolf, "Joan of Arc".

Anyone who has been online a lot knows of the Sumerian bar joke, because it's gone viral in memes more than once.

Previous Chapter Two: The Terror of the Gods Returns to The City of the Gods The rest of the summer after the visit of the gods settled into ordinary routines as the borrowed servants were sent back with generous compensations and the Hall of the Fire Ser…

On an Aristotelian account of practical reasoning, practical reasoning necessarily has an analogy to theoretical or speculative reasoning; the difference between theoretical reason and practical reason is only one of mode.

A few years ago, I said, commenting on my observation of changes in responses by Ethics students to various cases: I have a sort of standing nightmare that I will have to spend the last decades of my life arguing that, as a matter of fact, it is indeed mo…

This opens the notebook begun in June 2025. *** modalities of rights (1) exercise (2) support (3) defense (4) reparation (5) shared versions of (1)-(4) (6) vicarious versions of (1)-(4) security by haystack The human body is not merely a physical thing but

Today is the feast of Pope St.

Nikanor, or Nicanor, is a historical figure we know almost exclusively from 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees.

We Had a Female Passenger by William Wordsworth We had a female Passenger who came From Calais with us, spotless in array,-- A white-robed Negro, like a lady gay, Yet downcast as a woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate,…

This is a story I started here a few years ago and did not far on for scheduling reasons -- my schedule the past few years not being ideal for any serious creative endeavors, for a number of reasons.

The scholastic theologians occasionally address the question of whether Jesus had a guardian angel.

Stoic and Hedonist by Archibald Lampman The cup of knowledge emptied to its lees, Soft dreamers in a perfumed atmosphere, Ye turn, and from your luminous reveries Follow with curious eyes and biting sneer Yon grave-eyed men, to whom alone are sweet Streng…

This finishes the notebook that was completed June 24, 2025. *** "Role activities purposively undertaken are likely to have evaluative meaning not only in that some modicum of effiacy in the role is presupposed when according to the name, but also in that,

Today is the feast of St.

Error is always ignorance.

Dolly Parton passed away today at the age of 80; earlier this year she was having a number of health problems.

* Lorris Chevalier, When Garlic Defeated the Magnet: The Long Life of a Medieval Natural Belief, at "Medievalists.net" * Rob Alspaugh, Deriving Ought from Fitting?

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Introduction Opening Passage: The youthful gentleman in the scarlet coat with blue facings and gold lace, who was seated in the window of Lady Worth's drawing-room, idly looking down into the street, ceased for a moment to pay any attention to the convers…

Tim Foust, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

Today is the feast of St.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it.

Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in this world.

What disturbs the peace of unity is ambition, the vice that steals away from itself the soul which abandons itself to it, tearing it, as it were, in pieces, and dispersing it.