Aphorisms
Essays
About Resume
from Pleiades, forthcoming

A Sense of All Sorrows

A survey of history prompts the conviction that mortality exonerates immorality.

open quote The persistence of utopianism despite so many centuries without a utopia reveals a poignant conundrum. The world is getting no better, but that cannot quell the hope of a perfect society, for hope is born of unhappiness, and the world is getting no better. What refutes the dream, sustains it. close quote

Essays

  • The Communion of Strangers
  • A Sense of All Sorrows
  • Meditation During a Rainstorm
  • A Visit to the City
  • Confessions of a Carnivore
  • In Praise of Passion
  • On Being Nothing
  • Night Thoughts
  • The Electric Present
  • The Lonely Race
  • The Finite Experience of Infinite Life
  • The Great Divide
  • Winter of Discontent
  • Odyssey of Desire
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