Alright! Here is my summary statement on what I presently see as the crux of this matter, then, I am out of it...promise! Once upon a time m...

 1. First a rather naive question: Does anyone dispute the basic thesis that there are underlying patterns to otherwise separate world mytho...

This post is truer to the spirit of a journal entry, because it merely stitches together a few new things I learned today. I love finding ou...

I think this blog-thing lends itself to simplification -- which perhaps serves a good purpose: focused rhetorical starting points for discu...

Ok. Isn't there some art history/aesthetics consensus around the idea that (at le ast at one time) progress was thought to mean (1) diff...

I would like to present, out of this wide set of issues, a focused question: what would Plato say about realism in literature? The emergence...

thanks to Richard for having a sense of humor -- feel free to poke fun at any of my theory-laden beliefs, past and present!