I thought Sea of Intimacy was going to have six parts, and I was writing that fourth part for some time as a long-ish essay after George Steiner’s Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, a fine book with a smart contrast at its heart. My two points of contrast were going to be the two would-be masters of… Continue reading From Six Parts to Five (and a pre-part)
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Prospero in the Adriatic
This is a podcast version of the earlier “prospero in the adriatic” blog post, which you can find here. ###
Two Islands
This is a podcast version, a bit elaborated and updated, from the blog post of the same name, which you can find here.
Thinking with the Wind
Bridging cultural and natural approaches to the world can be a challenge. The interrelations are obvious, but connecting them in writing can sometimes feel arbitrary: from an ecological perspective, after all, everything is connected, so why one might start with one connection over another is as likely to be motivated by personal, rhetorical, or storytelling… Continue reading Thinking with the Wind
Russell Scott Valentino 