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The Tiepolo Effect

The Tiepolo Effect There is a critical concept I have long been trying to put in a form that will do work, or illuminate art when applied, like Eliot’s “objective correlative” or Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” (which it sort of resembles, or disputes). For now...

A Note on Alchemy

   A Note on Alchemy Long ago my friend Ioan Culianu, the most deepy learned man I've ever known well, and one of the most open and generous of that tribe, was tapped to upgrade a huge encyclopedia of magic and religion that his older colleague ...