The Owl of Otter Street

Smith Street...Collingwood...not unlike Prospero...conjuring up a fictional world of some moral purpose, self-realisation and destination...barondecharlus@me.com

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Cigarettes are Sublime : Richard Klein

Cigarettes are not positively beautiful, but they are sublime by virtue of their charming power to propose what Kant would call "a nega...
Reason and Empiricism

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Childhood and Society (1950), p. 269 A...
Greek Easter

Greek Easter at Otter Street My sexual preoccupations feel separate from me. It is as though I have absolutely no control over the con...
Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición : 1478-1834

In 1492, the year the new world of the Americas was discovered, the Jews of Spain where asked to convert to Catholocism or leave. Those that...
Black Death - Europe : 1346-1353

Don't waste time fighting battles that are not worthwhile...no this is not the black death, it is a building going up on Smith Street. ...