I am reading about Arthur Machen, who was apparently an influence on Yeats, Pierce, and Lovecraft, and a friend of A. E. Waite.
His philosophy and approach reminded me a lot of Barfield, but I couldn’t find an explicit link.
Here is an excerpt from a review of his book Hieroglyphics, describing his theory of “ecstasy”:
"Hieroglyphics" [...]
My recent post comparing Jon Stewart to Shakespeare’s “Bottom” provoked some passionate responses which served to illustrate my point. For readers who are interested in these things, I will now share some recently-released data to illustrate the situation.
The reactions to me initial post can be lumped into three general categories, all of which I will [...]
Tyler Cowan mentioned the book a couple of weeks ago, and intrigued by the title, I purchased a copy of “Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction ”, by William Flesch via Harvard University Press. I’m glad I did. It is one of the best books I’ve read in a long [...]
Vittorio has “tagged” me, which means that I am supposed to share a list of books which have had a great impact on me. By “books”, I take him to mean that form of communication which is reproduced in print and, more importantly, which can be identified simply by Title and Author or ISBN. This [...]
A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”! The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it. In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books. [...]