A Cruel Man Delighting in Flowers
...the mildness to which men ... had yielded was only half of the intoxication of beauty, while the other half ... was of such surpassing and terrible cruelty—the most cruel of men delights himself with a flower—that beauty ... failed quickly of its effect...
Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil
Jeremy Davies is made of ink, but don’t dip a feather in him. It tickles. He once painted a fingernail black and no one really noticed. He was disappointed. He’s also an editor, a religious atheist, a liker of strong coffees, a Shakespeare-lover, a political anarchist and someone who rarely has a pen when he needs one. He has been a PhD candidate, a personal trainer, a life model, a bouncer, an infantry soldier and someone who rarely had a pen when he needed one. He has had words published in a variety of places, in a variety of publications, in a variety of forms, in a variety of moments: Canada, Wet Ink, SMS and twelve minutes past three in the afternoon being some of these. His first novel, 'Missing Presumed Undead', will be re-published by Satalyte Publishing in February 2014. A second is on its way.
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American Journals was my third Camus book, and it, like his other works, delivered thought-provoking prose. Unlike The First ...
This was notionally a re-read, having read it (kinda sorta) in the original French and subsequently in the 1982 Joseph Laredo...
Caligula is the story of a superior suicide. It is the story of the most human and the most tragic of errors. Unfaithful to m...
Of all those forces that threaten humanity, there are three which can be seen as the most feared: war, natural disasters and ...
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Lyrical and Critical Essays
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