I think the impulse that defines an academic nature is that one responds to difficult moments by turning to the past to see how others have coped with similar times. So still reeling from unexpected grief, I turn to history as I contemplate the ways we deal with the inevitability of parting from those we…
Category: epic
Tuesday’s Overlooked A/V: Red Cliff
O for a muse of fire that would ascend / the highest brightest heaven of invention / a kingdom for a stage, princes to act / and monarchs to behold the swelling scene… There aren’t many pieces I can quote from memory (I gave the habit of misremembering every quote to my main character Ro…
K. A. Laity 