Fresco Lament Commentary
The first stanza imagines a strong beam of sunlight piercing an otherwise dark room. Dust particles, normally invisible, are obvious in the beam. Dust particles deflect light. Without them light would reveal only the objects directly in its path, leaving everything...
Fresco Lament
In a beam of light, dust is ephemeral, though a congregation illumines a shadowed place. The dim hall, a grey frown, looms over archipelagic heads forming sagas and complements, their stillness louder than sound. Who dreams of solitude? No, it is learned disposition;...
National Health Coverage (Jon Nelson)
Jonathan Nelson (guest writer) I'm feeling very grateful for the Spanish National Health Service (Salud). I was hit hard with some kind of flu (still unidentified) that turned into infectious pneumonia. On Dec. 20, after five days of being flat on my back, I saw the...
Totalitarianism
“East Germany was total in its totalitarianism. Everything was banned that wasn’t compulsory.” – P.J.O’Rourke
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