Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m reading an English translation of Confessions by Saint Augustine. It is a key work in Christian theology, and a blueprint for later autobiographies. It is the life story of a North African man, who is schooled, teaches rhetoric, and later converts to Christianity. I am only halfway, […]
Books
On Hierarchy In Art
I had an discussion today about the division in art between ‘high’ and ‘low’. These were some arguments.
Metawriting
Metawriting: writing about writing my book.
Heroes
I am reading the Illiad. It’s a story about heroes. How do you become a hero in the twenty-first century?