The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright tomorrow: Yet it is almost joy, since their despair Is but hope blinded by tears, and clear Above the storm the heavens wait to be seen. But greater sorrow from less love has never been, And to mistake lack…
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How To Destroy Love: Eros The Misunderstood Love | Art by Amanda Rae Long
“Now EROS makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.” … “Without Eros, sexual desire like every other desire is a fact about ourselves. Within Eros it is rather about the Beloved.”…
Diogenes the Dog; So you want to be a Cynic do you?
Diogenes was the first of a group of thinkers who became known as the Cynics, a term taken from the Greek kunikos, meaning “dog-like.” It reflects the determination of the Cynics to spurn all forms of social custom and etiquette, and instead live in as natural a state as possible. They asserted that the more…
Arresting of The Beautiful || Illustration by Sana Pearl Park
And, of course, the temple par excellence of culture is the modern museum in which the objects of art seamlessly mirror back to us the satisfaction (repressed, unconscious as it is) of our teleological drive to historical mastery bewitching ourselves into thinking we have achieved it. Art in this sense is double-edged: it is not…
TNT: Theology Nerd Throwdown Logos
Recently, Tripp Fuller from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, contacted me about designing some itunes album art for their new cast TNT (Theology Nerd Throwdown). Being a huge fan of the show I was glad to lend a hand! Below are the two graphics that made the final cut, you can cruise over to the HBC…
The Earth is Watching You | Art by Nancy Mladenoff
The Mikasukis back up Lost Man’s Slough was maybe the last Indins in the U.S.A. that never signed no treaty with no Great White Father. Called ’em Cypress Indins cause they hollowed dugouts out of cypress logs. Never paddled hardly but stood up in the stern, used push poles, followed water paths that in the…
Orpheus charmed all living things, even stones, with his music.
Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music; his attempt to retrieve his wife from the underworld; and his death at the hands of those who could not…
The Border of Knowledge and Ignorance | Collage by Sara McFall
How else can one write but of those things which one doesn’t know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one into the other. Only in…
If all the forest trees were pens And all the oceans, ink?
A fish swims through the sea While the sea is, in a certain sense Contained within the fish! Oh, what am I to think Of what the writing Of a thousand lifetimes could not explain If all the forest trees were pens And all the oceans, ink? Lyrics from The Dryness and The Rain by…
The Student Loan Racket – Infographic
In case you havn’t already seen this infographic, it’s pretty cool and informtative/incendiary.