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Excerpt: Notes on a Field in July THAT DOESN’T STOP ME FROM HAVING A TERRIBLE NEED FOR – SHALL I SAY THE WORD? I want to be clear: I am not interested in Van Gogh. I am interested in the two-inch, shell-shaped, and impossibly complex piece of flesh which was securely bound, by blood andContinue reading “Death by Molasses”

Painting the Lion: Marriage & Rhetoric in The Canterbury Tales At times it seems as though Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a compilation of stories more about marriage than anything else. The theme predominates, taking central stage in several of The Tales’ most crucial stories. These stories are rarely read or enjoyed, however, as aContinue reading “Who peyntede the leoun?”

Being An Exploration of Existential Solace as a Consequence of Perdurantism and Eternalism In David Velleman’s prominent paper on the ‘perduring’ self, “So it Goes” – title borrowed from a famous Vonnegut novel in which time and its many parts seem to behave in strange ways – the philosopher examines the Buddhist claim that itContinue reading “The Solace of Open Air”

Nontraditional Ethics and Benatar’s Misanthropy “Humans may exceed other animals in their sapient capacities, but we also surpass other species in our destructiveness,” writes David Benatar in his misanthropic argument, the third in a series of anti-natalist dialogues intended to argue for the immediate and complete cessation of human procreation. “I shall consider three categoriesContinue reading “Not Merely Soil”