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The Spiritual Terror of Modern Art – Can We Make Ourselves Beautiful?
This [modern] art is the work of your neighbors, your contemporaries, human beings who are crying out in despair for the loss of their humanity, their values, their lost absolutes, groping in the dark for answers. It is already late, if not too late, but if we want to help our generation we must hear…
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Mark Lanegan: The Poetry of an Addict
I don’t know many people who have heard of Mark Lanegan, much less listened to his music. This is perhaps more a reflection of the limitations of my social circle than his popularity. I first encountered Lanegan’s music on the soundtrack of the television show Lie to Me starring Tim Roth. The track was Kingdoms…
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Book Review: The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
How I Ended up Reading this Book I don’t normally read contemporary fiction. This is for several reasons, but the main one is that I don’t have a reliable standard of quality to judge if this or that work is worth it. I don’t trust bestseller lists and recommendations by mainstream magazines the same way…
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The Motorcycle Before the Horse
It was one evening a few months ago, while returning home from a tennis lesson, that I witnessed a scene that forever confirmed my unhappy sentiments about modern Indian life. Waiting at a traffic signal, I saw two men on a motorcycle being followed closely by a horse – not in itself a remarkable sight…
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The Last of Us Season 2 is Terrible
Contains spoilers. There was a time on the Internet when you could Google “is the Last of Us Season 2 bad?” and have a reasonable chance of coming across a kindred spirit who would have written cogently about the exact same feeling that you harboured in your heart but felt unsure to express. This does…
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Lost Illusions – A Lesson for Poets
I recently finished Honoré de Balzac’s Lost Illusions, one of the most popular works from his multi-volume magnum opus, The Human Comedy. Comprising three parts, it tells the story of two talented young men, David Séchard and Lucien Chardon, and their struggle to overcome poverty and establish themselves in the tumultuous and treacherous world of…
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Notes on Idealism – Part One
Since the height of their perfection in the sixteenth century, the arts have shown a steady decline. The cause lies rather in the changes that have occurred in thoughts and manners … the absence of popular taste, the gradual enrichment of the middle classes, the increasingly autocratic sway of sterile criticism, the tendency of men…
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The Effect on Art of the Loss of the Ideal
Why is that art in its various forms has declined in our modern age? For some this question may itself be a non-starter, for they don’t perceive any decline but rather a proliferation of forms that one can choose from. Nothing is really better or worse than any other, it all comes down to the…
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Photographing Mallorca
In 2024 I spent almost two months in the Spanish island of Mallorca. I already wrote about my motorcycling experience there in the first article on this site. Here I include some photographs I took during my stay, as I tried to capture the island’s beauty which one can often run out of words to…
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Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album: On Suffering
As a work of 19th-century Russian literature, it is no surprise that the Sketches contains much suffering in it. In keeping with his role as an interested yet detached observer, Turgenev simply describes the plight of his characters “as it is”, appended with only a few heartfelt or ironic comments from himself, never going beyond…
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