Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
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Antigone, defiant and intimate (5/7. Authority)
Part 5: Authority In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their relatives, their peers...
What does it mean to be out of touch with reality?
The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and Peter insists...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
So many stories about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time is based on...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny. Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as much by his roots as by his fruit. Man, like the tree...
News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, while rereading the notes I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let's not veil our figures...
Charlie's Destiny
"The enemy limits you, therefore shapes you and establishes you." This quote from Saint-Exupéry aptly expresses our condition at the end of this first week of...
On totalitarian states
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who...".
Simone de Beauvoir on human life
"To declare that life is absurd is to say that it will never have meaning. To say that it is ambiguous is to decide that its meaning...".