Spectres & Souls 梟雄   At the center of what I know is the realization and the acceptance of the certainty that never in my lifetime will I live again in the world in which I was born and grew to maturity.… Read

Spectres & Souls 患得患失   The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’… Read

Spectres & Souls 魑魅魍魉   ‘A hubris-crazed monster from the bowels of the American dream with a heart full of hate and an overweening lust to be President.’ The gonzo journalist Hunter S.… Read

Spectres & Souls 天翻地覆慨而慷   Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s… Read

Spectres & Souls 咎由自取   Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing (won’t be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it’s overturned
The order of the soul The  lines are from The Future, a song released by Leonard Cohen in 1992.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 出淤泥而不染   This chapter in Intersecting with Eternity is the result of a serendipitous connection between the artist Lisa Simone and the writer Linda Jaivin, one sparked by a cartoon published by Fiona Katauskas following the US presidential election on 5 November 2024.… Read