Compare and contrast —
Friday, June 26, 2020
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Triptychs
Two readings by James Parker —
From next year’s first Atlantic issue
From last month’s Atlantic issue
“Let’s return to that hillside where Clayton exited his Mercedes.
In the gray light, he climbs the pasture. Halfway up the slope,
three horses are standing: sculpturally still, casually composed
in a perfect triptych of horsitude.”
— James Parker in The Atlantic , Nov. 2017 issue
Logos-related material
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Friday, November 10, 2017
Style
“Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) is, by any measure, an obscure figure,
little known outside the exclusive circles of a certain very rarefied kind of
scholarship, hardly read at all even in his native Germany, and perhaps
truly understood by next to no one. And yet . . . .”
— “The Laughter of the Philosophers,” by David Bentley Hart,
First Things , January 2005
Update at 7 the same morning . . .
Meanwhile, back in 1963 —
… and at 7:15 the same morning, from a different Cambridge —
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