Year: 2022

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Harmonies and Dissonances

Harmonies and Dissonances

I’ve been blogging away, thanks to the support of people who have bought me dragons. (N.B. I could always use more dragons.) But I also have a few essays coming out in periodicals in the coming months – I’ll link to them here when they become available. Ian...

Sir Shi and the Wanderer

Sir Shi and the Wanderer

A peacock mosaic at the recently excavated Church of the Holy Apostles in southern Hatay province, Turkey. ⎯⎯ The Holkham Bible Picture Book, ca. 1330 ⎯⎯ A while back, I chatted with Joy Clarkson about old books. Here’s the conversation in text form. Some tags on my...

More Fakes, Plus Hittites

More Fakes, Plus Hittites

Claudia Rilling ⎯⎯ In my capacity as … um, let me revisit that later … anyway, I have declared 2021 to be The Year of Repair! Also, I am a Homebound Symphony. ⎯⎯ Re: my recent issue on fakes and fakery, see Byung-Chul Han: The Chinese have two different concepts of a...

Easy Edges and Harder Ones

Easy Edges and Harder Ones

Twofold overture: I didn’t expect, at all, to get the kind of response I have received to my Buy Me a Coffee initiative. I don’t primarily mean the financial contributions – though those have been welcome, because they allow me to focus on work on my blog that I want...