Monthly Archives: October 2020

Reading of Norwich’s Short History of Byzantium

Constantine didn’t see anything in the sky before winning a battle – the usual Xian lies he did. The author’s explanation for the executions of Crispus and Fausta is plausible except it doesn’t explain that of Licianus unless the emperor … Continue reading

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Reading Rumi

It’s continually irritating: the presumption of a transcendent god, the imprecise spirituality, the false paradoxes of any self-promoting religious literature to make out its lies are truth.  There are glitterings of poetry.  The hashishins are the assassins ‘who come in … Continue reading

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