Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

Books · Observations · Nature · Humour

Who would have thought that Elizabeth Bowen could be so popular among wasps!

More precisely, among the sceliphron wasps, that is, the digging kind, which make out of clay such charming capsules, as though excavated in the land of Lilliput, and stuff them with little spiders and small insects. The growing wasp larva feeds on the provisions stored in these mud-walled cells,

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling man with greying hair, wearing a light striped shirt, seated in front of foliage.

Books · Observations · Science · People

Michel Henry’s “Barbarism” Republished Through the Efforts of Jean-Luc Marion

Evil is not the absence of good, but a force in its own right, full and substantial. "Barbarism" by Michel Henry (1922-2002). Henry is the greatest representative of French phenomenology, and sadly little known in present-day philosophical circles. Happily, however, he has very recently been reissued

Hand-coloured engraving “Caisse d'incubation”: an incubator box in section and shaped as brooding hens, with a crowned coat of arms above.

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Incubator shaped like a brooding hen in a description from a 1786 book

An eighteenth-century incubator: I came across a description of an egg-hatching machine in a book of 1786. To lend it a harmonious appearance, the author proposes that it be made in the shape of a broody hen. Yet another confirmation that the technologies of the past were far

NB! · Faith · Art · Books · Observations

Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the Cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"

Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling". A marriage made in heaven

Cinema · Books · Observations · New York

The ending of the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes” and how it differs from the original novella

Do you remember the ending of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes? When the ruined Statue of Liberty appears on screen, we learn that the action is taking place not on some distant heavenly body but on Earth, which has fallen under the rule of cruel and narrow-minded

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My independence, which is my strength, gives rise to my solitude, which is my weakness

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Architecture · Books · Monarchies · Paris

Marie Antoinette's dairy near Rambouillet château, with a grotto and a sculpture of Amalthea

Émile Zola describes the château of Rambouillet, with its forest and surroundings, as a paradise to which one longs to flee from the heat of the stone corridors of Paris, in Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Paradise"). To this day it remains one of the most

Books

"Do you hear it?" "What?" "Happiness, hiding."

Jean Anouilh, Medea

Faith · Books

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things

For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth these three: faith, hope, charity; but the greatest of these is charity. The First Epistle of Paul the

Engraving of a bearded man in a long robe resting his hand on a globe inscribed EVROPA and ASIA.

Geography · Books · Observations

Strabo and the Eleventh Book of His “Geography”

All men speak different languages because, through their obstinacy and ferocity, they live in scattered groups and have no intercourse with one another. Strabo. Geography. Book XI

Books · Observations

The Worst Will Happen

The worst will happen. Remember me, children, when that day comes. I foresaw it and I foretold it. I felt the catastrophe approaching. Our age is rotten. The horror awaiting Germany was predicted by Klaus Mann as early as Mephisto, published in 1936. He puts this warning into the mouth

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Finnish literature is too white!!!

Finnish literature is too white!!! Europe. Chronicles of Replacement