Back To Our Future

How the 1980's changed America for the worse.

Blues For Allah Indeed

The Grateful Dead's famous "skeleton and roses" image was lifted from an English language edition of the Ruba'iyyat of Omar Khayyam.

The original artist may have been Edmund J. Sullivan.

We Need More Of These Gentlemen

The Sanity Clause

Theodicy

WHAT IS MAN?

And Even More Great Americana

Still More Great Americana

Lucretius

"The great master of sympathy with nature, in my education, was Lucretius." --George Santayana, My Host The World, 134.

"A genius who warns you away from organized superstition and erotic frenzy might well be at a disadvantage these days. But Lucretius matters because no other poet teaches you so well not to fear death, a teaching in which Montaigne was Lucretius's follower. By bluntly dismissing survival and immortality, Lucretius seeks to bring you a freedom from dread and from melancholy, a freedom that most of us decline to accept...He confronts with serenity the violent world that his poem could not teach Vergil to bear serenely. His art is less varied than Vergil's, and its aesthetic effect upon me is not as great as Vergil's, but it does me more good to read Lucretius." --Harold Bloom, Genius, 68, 72.

Epicurus

"We must laugh and philosophize at the same time."

Still More Great Americana

More Great Americana

Fly In The Ointment

Le Marabout Errant also suspects a fly in the ointment--and hopes that he is it.

Great Americana

Icon Of St. Martin

Icon Of St. Democritus

CONCERT for GEORGE....Royal Albert Hall, 2002 (Full Concert)