John Ruskin: Fit the Second
So what interests me about Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera? Several things: a lively interchange of ideas about political...
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John Ruskin: Fit the First
Thirteen years ago, when my friend Jamie Smith launched his blog, he named it Fors Clavigera in honor of a strange and...
two apologies and a bleg
Apology One: I wrote a post a while back about hating time-travel stories, and almost immediately after I did so I...
a public amateur’s story
There is so much that’s wonderful about Sara Hendren’s talk here that I can’t summarize it — and wouldn’t if...
more on social structures and imaginative work
A couple of follow-ups on yesterday’s oddball rantish thing on the social and economic structures that enable or...
the broken-glass mystery
What you see above is the portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, painted in 1545 by Gerlach Flicke....
Dear Mr. Watterson
The one great impression I have from this much-lauded film — which I just got around to watching — is how...
smileys, emoticons, typewriter art
I hate to be a party pooper — no, really: I hate it — but I just don’t think Levi Stahl has found an emoticon...
