Happy 4th anniversary to the night in Svalbard when my phone took this unedited photo of a giant lunar halo over the glaciers of Svalbard to which the only response was to fall into hysterical laughter, serially taken up by each shipmate, how else to respond to such outlandish, annihilating beauty

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Truitt’s book really sharply reveals how modernity requires certain Great Men to be out of step with their own (medieval) time in order to proclaim them as visionaries and forerunners. So in order to make Bacon and Gutenberg seem less medieval they must be pitched against the Catholic authorities.

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That Papist, Alito.

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Told you.

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R.I.P. Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, the warmest and friendliest film critic I ever knew. We used to cross paths at the Middleburg FF, where she was a tremendously welcoming presence. She was at work on a book about the making of All the President’s Men. We need it now more than ever.

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