Fresco, 1722, porch of the Kretzulescu Church, Calea Victoriei, Bucharest

"Where the hell am I?" A single point of rock, peak of a mountain range, one tooth set in the ancient jaw of a sunken world, pr...

Dumitru Tsepeneag, The Bulgarian Truck Even in the original, The Bulgarian Truck is a novel acutely conscious of its own translated...

καὶ καλῶς Ἡράκλειτος εἶπεν ὅτι αἱ ψυχαὶ ὀσμῶνται καθ᾽ ῞Αιδην. and Heraclitus was right in saying that souls employ smell in Hades. ...

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But ...

My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations t...

[ P ] seudologia phantastica [is] that form of hysteria which is characterized by a peculiar talent for believing one's own lies. Fo...

For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without th...

Four young soldiers on horseback, machine guns under their arms, proceeded warily along the road that followed the perimeter of the camp. W...

Iulian Ciocan, Before Brezhnev Died , Dalkey Archive Press, 2019 The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the pl...

Emilian Galaicu-Păun, Living Tissue . 10x10 , Dalkey Archive Press, 2019 With each chapter embodying a separate Commandment, Living...

Poetry may have also an ulterior value as a means to culture or religion; because it conveys instruction, or softens the passions, or furth...

A patient noticed the waiter in the coffee-house; he skipped past him so quickly and uncannily. He noticed odd behaviour in an acquaintance...

One morning, some eight or nine days after our arrival, I looked out of my window and saw the whole landscape transformed before me. The cl...

As we have seen, purely intentional correlates of connected sentences can enter into manifold relationships and interrelations. And since a...

'Hell?' breathed Miss Lacey. '"The state after death",' called Mr Sully, still peering into the gloom--and st...

'I see a huge city of granite,' he grunted; 'I see lean spires of metal and hazardous towers, frowning upon the blackness of th...

[L]a « solidification » du monde, si loin qu'elle soit poussée effectivement, ne peut jamais être complète, et il y a des limites au de...

To discriminate schools, of art, of literature, is, of course, part of the obvious business of literary criticism: but, in the work of lite...

Where then will that soul hide itself, which to the eyes of so many spectators will have been suddenly exposed in all its shame? Wit...

But self-love, or the love which reigns in Hell, and is the opposite of that in heaven, consists in a man’s loving himself supremely, and w...

Discrimen inter Ens reale et apparens, qualitatemque realem et apparentem examinatu dignum est. Et quidem quae in somniis apparent, dicimus...

Somnia hoc distant a vita, quod phaenomena vitae sunt ordinata, et quod hinc sequitur universalia: neque enim mea satis ordinata essent, ni...

. . . ich nicht von den bin so auff ihr Vaterland, oder sonst auff eine gewisse Nation, erpricht seyn; sondern ich gehe auf den Nutzen des ...

Les plus petits moucherons sont aussi parfaits que les animaux les plus énormes. Les proportions de leurs membres sont aussi justes que c...

Quand on écrit, il faut penser au martyre du lecteur et du traducteur. C'est en songeant à ce dernier surtout que l'écrivain devrai...

[S]upposons qu'un homme songe fort longtemps; par exemple quelques années de suite, que pourroit il faire en ce temps; il ne pourroit p...

[T]he tide that rose in the unconscious after the first World War was reflected in individual dreams, in the form of collective mythologic...

For that mankind is in a lapsed condition it cannot be denied, nor that a great part of the invisible powers are sunk into the animal life ...

Sed age ducam te per vastum Macrocosmum, ut innumera vermium agmina, seu tamen excrementa eorum animata, vel seminia foecunda, aut ovula, ...

Le monde réel possède un aspect irréel, qu'on pourrait appeler «illusion cosmique». Les choses les plus matérialisées: la bourse, les b...

Then humming thrice [Dr L----n] (1) assumed a most ridiculous solemnity of aspect, and entered into a learned investigation of the nature o...

Well, there is no nation that drinks so hoggishly as the English -- What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an ...

Commerce and industry, traffic in books and letters, the commonality of all higher culture, quick changes of locality and landscape, the pr...

[T]he tide that rose in the unconscious after the first World War was reflected in individual dreams, in the form of collective mythologica...

À qui vit de fiction, la vérité est infecte. Qui a soif de flatterie revomit le réel, bu par surprise. Victor Hugo, L'Homme qui rit (...

Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a ce...

A more accurate diagnosis of Hitler's condition would be pseudologia phantastica , that form of hysteria which is characterized by a pe...

In order to allow narcissistic identification, the [fascist] leader has to appear himself as absolutely narcissistic, and it is from this i...

In dialogue with Theodorus (Plato, Theaetetus , 168e-171d), Socrates criticises the philosophy of Protagoras ("man is the measure of a...