The Bhagavad Gita is book #17 from The Literary Project. “He who in action sees inaction and action in inaction–he is wise among men, he is a yogin, and he has accomplished all his work.” Ch4, 18 When I make a conscience decision to take […]
Mnemosyne, [nee-mos–uh-nee], is the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the Nine Muses by Zeus. This “Invoking Mnemosyne” series is where I share what poetry & prose it is that I’m memorizing as part of my self-education journey. I was reading through an anthology of […]
Mnemosyne, [nee-mos–uh-nee], is the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the Nine Muses by Zeus. Pictured is Mnemosyne by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881, © Delaware Art Museum. I’ve briefly mentioned on The Project page about my plan to commit portions of certain texts to memory. […]
1984 is book #269 from The Literary Project. I recently re-read George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984. It had been at least 15 years since I had read it the first time, and so I remembered little. In diving in again, I was struck by Orwell’s […]
Agamemnon is book #10 from The Literary Project. “…they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.” (Proverbs 1:31-32) Never has this been more true within literature than in the tragic story of the immortal blood curse shadowing the […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
Greek Lyrics is book #5 from The Literary Project. Greek Lyrics is a collection of poetic fragments that have survived for over 2 millennia. They are, as the name implies, lyric poems that are meant to be sung or spoken together with a lyre. The […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]