The eyes that hold constellations
Gaze into the endless breadth of the stars. Drink of the bottomless abyss they hide behind their celestial light. Contemplate the beauty of their design, the...
Gaze into the endless breadth of the stars. Drink of the bottomless abyss they hide behind their celestial light. Contemplate the beauty of their design, the...
They laughed at the breaking of the worldAs hordes of darkness and riders of decayClung to the symbols of glory and well-fortuneAnd the mongerers of tales...
I write now, long after the song of minstrels has been forgotten. I write now, long after the ink of poets has gone dry. I write...
Being a student of history is an experience that manifests itself in different phases. First comes awe; it underpins the fascination of learning about all these...
The most tragic human proclivity is to take things for granted. Think of the change in the seasons. An undeniable mark of the passage of time,...
The divine is dead; men saw to its execution. They replaced the moral teachings of Christianity with a void of potential, and in doing so precipitated the most disastrous display of human savagery the world had ever seen.
The weight of the stars, he called it, that elusive, ineffable thought that burdened him so. Eccentric, they called him in turn, dismissing that unorthodox shell of self-conscious inelegance as another man, who, just isn’t quite right in the head.
Even now, after all these years, I guess I’m still trying to find the words. It’s not easy getting around this… existential dread. Even now, I’m not entirely sure how it all works. But I think, or rather I hope, that when life prevails outside the bounds of our unremarkable day-to-day struggle to get by, you begin to see it.