the clouds were our home
the sky our roads
the stars our friends
the lightning our bedside lamp
the rumble of thunder our love song
the night our bed
the moon our dream
the sun our hope…
Husband, father, philosopher and medievalist, I split my time between the continent – where my family lives – and the green Albion – where I work –, going back and forth from English to Swiss German, from my pad to my home, from the 13th century university and thought debates to modern Thomism.
Quote(s) of the Month
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The price of greatness is responsibility
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Harvard call for Anglo-American brotherhood, 1943
Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhaung Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterlfy dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.