Editor’s Entries: Martinis and a Villa in Capri • Samson and Delilah • The Lion of Judah: King Saul • Last of the Hebrews: Jeremiah • I shall not be forgotten: Sappho of Lesbos • The Cosmopolitan: Euripides (by Theodor Mommsen) • The Characters (by Theophrastus) • The Making of Judaism • Not to all People but onto Chosen Witnesses • Only the Naughty Bits: Petronius • Tell them the Great Pan is Dead: Plutarch • Hoax or History? The Annals of Tacitus • The Wizard’s Niece • Dispensation of the One: Plotinus • Homoousion, Homoiousion, or Houyhnhnms? Arius and Nicene • Keeping the Faith: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and his Time • Indian Summer: the 5th Century • The Worm in Eve's Apple: Sex and Christianity • The Innovation of Childhood • The Ape that Talks • Memory is like Writing on Water • Bondage of Common Sense: Martin Luther • The Magnificent People: the Inca Empire • Let there be Light: Michel de Montaigne • Was he for real? Descartes • My Great-Great-Great Grandmother’s Letter • A hot Chestnut in the open Fly: Laurence Sterne • All in the Mind: Immanuel Kant • The Manufacture of Ideas as we speak (by Heinrich von Kleist) • From the Memoirs of Mr. Schnabelewopski, Esq. (by Heinrich Heine) • My Kind of Saint: Antonin Chekhov • A Catholic Upbringing: James Joyce • The Shame: Franz Kafka • A Sellout with Conviction: Gottfried Benn • The Unknown Russian: Vladimir Sirin • At the Pictures • The Terminus • About Me • Books I enjoy • Brief Notes on English and American Style (by Raymond Chandler) • How to stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (by Douglas Adams) • Elements of Style (by William Strunk) • If E.T. is out there, why doesn’t he visit us? • Where does the Lake go, when the Geese fly to Canada? • A Case of Game Theory: the Origin of Morals • The Simple Art of Murder (by Raymond Chandler) • A Directory to Afterlife

Coming soon: An Untidy Schedule • The Book Adrian • Farewell to Venus

Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much ... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

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			How to stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (by Douglas Adams): “For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities, but gradually our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing” (Douglas Adams).
			The Characters (by Theophrastus): Theophrastus’ Characters was written 2,300 years ago, ages before the Freudian and Jungian claptrap, as an aid for the aspiring playwright, and it is still as true as it was then.
			Brief Notes on English and American Style (by Raymond Chandler): In 1887 Oscar Wilde wrote: “We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, the language.” It’s a matter of thinking as well, not just of different words (Raymond Chandler).
			Elements of Style (by William Strunk): My wife believes she can recognize an American composer by certain characteristics in his baseline and harmonics. The same could be said about the American way with words. Elements of Style is more than a manual of good expression, it is an education in democracy.
			The Simple Art of Murder (by Raymond Chandler): “Other things being equal, which they never are, a more powerful theme will provoke a more powerful performance. Yet some very dull books have been written about God, and some very fine ones about how to make a living and stay fairly honest. It is always a matter of who writes the stuff, and what he has in him to write it with” (Raymond Chandler).

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			The Cosmopolitan – Euripides (by Theodor Mommsen): "Everywhere, at home and abroad, the younger generation, with a moving enthusiasm, gave in to the poet of sentimentality and love, to the smart sound-bite and the tendentious aphorism, to philosophy and humanitarianism" (Theodor Mommsen).
			The Manufacture of Ideas as We Speak (by Heinrich von Kleist): Was it a twitch of the upper lip or some indecisive fiddling with the sleeve cuff that became the cause for the French Revolution? Considering the way we manufacture Ideas as we speak, this is very possible.
			From the Memoirs of Mr. Schnabelewopski, Esq. (by Heinrich Heine): “When the pot-roast was particularly bad, we turned to debating the existence of God. The good Lord always was with the majority. Only three at the table held atheistic views; yet they too listened to reason if we had at least a good cheese for dessert” (Heinrich Heine).