Go, Went, Gone

Go, Went, Gone

So listen, the owl says now: The more highly developed a society is, the more its written laws come to replace common sense. In Germany, I estimate that only two-thirds of our laws are still anchored in the emotional lives of the people, as it were. The other third...
Congo Journey

Congo Journey

He squatted down, arranging the fire, shouting back over his shoulder into the hut, ‘My grandfather was the greatest sorcerer in Dongou, Uncle. Everybody knows. They all know the story. The Chief of Dongou, now, he also was powerful in the spirit way, and in the...
Ulysses

Ulysses

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell XIV

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell XIV

the ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as i have heard from hell. for the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave is guard at tree of life; and when he does, the whole creation will be...