New Year’s Constitutions

New Year’s Constitutions

Tuesday 2nd January around 2 p.m… I’m trying to think. Sitting on Scruffy. Got the heater going. Storm’s looming. Thanks to my painting project last summer I’m sitting high and dry. Knock on wood. I’m rocking a little. Not Rocking and Bobbing. Nothing too serious. Storm came in on time. Weather. com got it right for a change. Storm front arrives like clockwork. Like it’s got nothing better to do. Show up and power down on us a little. I…

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A Scholar Worth Reading

A Scholar Worth Reading

Angelus Novus, by Paul Klee. The artist’s friend Walter Benjamin, a noted German critic and philosopher, purchased the print in 1921. In September 1940 Benjamin committed suicide during an attempt to flee the Nazi regime. After World War II, Benjamin’s friend Gershom Scholem, a distinguished scholar of Jewish mysticism, inherited the drawing. According to Scholem, Benjamin felt a mystical identification with the Angelus Novus and incorporated it in his theory of the “angel of history,” a melancholy view of historical process as an unceasing cycle of despair.[1]