My Commonplace Blog

It is a great relief to find Anaximander's wheels in Ezekiel. The bible at once becomes a book of the human race instead of being a cork...

'Exactly. Religion is the most dangerous thing in the world. It is not little girls in their communion frocks and silly holy pictures an...

I looked at him and very nearly said: Here are you teaching comparative literature, the big subtle stuff crammed with ambiguities, and you...

'Divine mysteries, all nonsense,' she said. 'There are bad men and good men, it's as simple as that. Greed and malevolence f...

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see m...

[Mayor] 'Can you explain the Trinity to me? It was more than they could do in Salamanca.' [Monsignor Quixote] 'I can try.'...

The look on his face is a complete shock. I didn't understand the value and meaning of education, the hardship and stress it causes most...