Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sense of Life/Reality

  • The Worldling

    The worldling has no time for eternity.

  • Alain on Monasticism

    Stack leader.  The other morning I recalled the passage in Alain where he recorded his boyhood visit to the abbey at La Trappe and his visceral revulsion at the life of the monks. So I pulled his On Happiness from the shelf and to my surprise opened right to the passage in question. Coincidence, or synchronicity?…