From the Narrow Desert

Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by...

Mark your calendars, and in the meantime find something else to read. Note added:  For those who have asked, nothing is wrong, and my decisi...

Back on August 17, Bruce Charlton posted an episode from the old children's TV show Pipkins (which I had never heard of), in which Hart...

It's been a while since I clicked for a randomly selected /x/ thread . I tried it today just in the spirit of "Is this thing on?...

But Men shall remember Atlantis's name Come hell or high water! Sith both of them came, It rests unforgotten, and what we now tell Skill...

My mention of a "Buddhist text" in my last post was probably misleading, making it sound like I was poring over Mahayana scriptur...

Gustave Doré, The Death of Abel (1866)   I struggled with some demons, they were middle-class and tame I didn't know I had permission t...

All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme. -- Mark 3:28 As strong as ca...

This morning, a preschooler dropped a case of alphabet stamps. These had been in alphabetical order, but when he picked them up, he paid no ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to puzzle out the meaning of "The plant is the three pages just starred by an asterisk," ...