Saturday, April 30, 2011  A pause for the cause and shoring up
the foundations  I hope you’ll excuse my taking a necessary
pause in the battle, a moment to reflect. I began this blog five
years ago, as a place to take the place of the people I didn’t
find available to talk to about what I was learning – after all,
the people who have an interest in reading Sophocles and
Shakespeare, Aristotle and Irving Babbitt and all points in
between, are few and far between. I get that. Not a problem.
This blog began as, and still is, a place for me to reflect upon
the layers and depths I was finding between what I knew to be
true on the surface, and the depths of what I was finding that
that knowledge meant was actually True.  One of my favorite
plays is Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, because it follows Oedipus as
he finds that there is a very great gap between what he knew,
and what it meant - though he found it out too late. One day
Oedipus learns that there was a prophecy made which fated that
he would kill his father and ma