by Robin Bloor | Jul 14, 2019 | Postings by Robin Bloor, Selected Prose
This remarkable essay comes from “The Golden Bough,” by Sir James George Frazer. The King of The Wood Who does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 14, 2019 | Selected Prose
The Sermon on the Mount – And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 14, 2019 | Selected Prose
Ahmad Hambal was the Imam of his time, and his merit beyond praise. Once when he wished to rest from his studies and his position he went out to talk with a man who was very poor. Someone who saw him blamed him saying: ‘There is no one more learned than you, and you...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 14, 2019 | Selected Prose
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this...
