Every person who’s fallen under the spell of ideas and history fantasizes about the discovery of a lode of forgotten texts and antiques, covered with cobwebs and protected from sunlight for eons, an archive.
This is a collection of all of the blog posts on this site in the order of publication.
Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954): Murder as Fantasy, Sex as Violence
2007-12-08
Rear Window appears a murder mystery in which Jeff and Lisa play amateur sleuths. In truth, the film is a fantasy about the strange gravity between sex and murder.
Chet Travels: sur les bricoleurs de l’angoisse
2007-09-04
One of the things I learned on my last trip to Paris was about this special group of individuals in French society. They have been called the “bricoleurs de l’angoisse,”
from the journals of Chet (8/6/04)
2004-08-26
A lovely set of days in Umbria, Italy, with philosophers and one in particular.