Melanchthon’s Deathbed List
A new version of an old post on Melanchthon's thoughts shortly before his death.
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
A new version of an old post on Melanchthon's thoughts shortly before his death.
Thornton Wilder and C.S. Lewis on reading masterpieces.
A possible allusion to Aristophanes in Thornton Wilder's The Woman of Andros.
What light does Shelby Foote shed on Tolkien's "sub-creation"?
A limerick about how the White House has managed to make misleading the public not just bad, but boring.
A passage on eclipses from Book 1 of Cicero's Republic.
In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of…
Today (March 26) is Robert Frost’s birthday. (This “modern” poet was born only nine years after the conclusion of the Civil War. History is bizarre.) A while back, I started…
On the occurrence of the Greek word φιλανθρωπία (God's love for man).
Light verse on bad comedy.
