Self-Portrait In A Very Old Mirror At The Met
Going Max Fischer
I will say this about Do Not Allow Virtual Learning To Steal Our Snow Days, my latest for Circe: I don’t want to be a celebrity, but I am definitely shooting for “folk hero.”
Children Should Be Seen, Not Heard
And everybody is somebody’s child.
Episode 49 of Proverbial is available now.
An Actual Conversation
Gibbs: How are you?
Kroger cashier: I can’t complain.
Gibbs: You could complain, but you don’t. That’s a virtue.
Kroger cashier: Ooh, I like that.
Real Psychological Wisdom
My favorite single line of dialogue from any motion picture, a line I repeat often to myself as a sort of consolation, comes from Tom Alfredson’s 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it is, “The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
While the line is original, I was reading the proverbs of William Hazlitt this morning (who is English, like John le Carré) and I came across, “Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”
After Denis Villeneuve, Christian Petzold Is The Most Exciting Filmmaker Alive
Phoenix (2014) is about marriage, plain and simple.
Commit To Something
This week’s episode of Proverbial is concerned with a saying of Thomas Aquinas: “I fear the man of one book.”
Offensive things are said about modern reading strategies. Enjoy.
A Paradox
If a man would be content with the things he has, he must not be content with things.
Still
Seven years later, I am still sore about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death.
Memory eternal.
Slow Down
Over the last several weeks, I have seen several thoughtful conservative writers quote with approval the saying, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
As noble and generous as it sounds, I simply don’t believe any reasonable man would make a widow of his wife and orphans of his children just so Kevin Smith could make Clerks.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 