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The Republic of Bloggers, SpiralChris & Pundita

[ by Charles Cameron — on music, art, and the double meanings of fruit, bread, wine ] . Still-life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose, Francisco de Zurbarán, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena ** Chris Bateman, aka SpiralChris, responded a couple of weeks ago to my own...

Visiting with T. Greer and Lexington Green

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“]  Reading Room, University of Chicago Library Last Sunday I spent a very enjoyable afternoon meeting T. Greer of Scholar’s Stage blog and visiting with him and Lexington Green of the group blog Chicago Boyz ( where T....

A claim that al-Baghdadi is the Dajjal, maybe?

[ by Charles Cameron — also, the split between AQC and ISIS in a nutshell: rival claims to the title of Amir al-Mu’minin ] . A site with the domain name “Horn of Satan” carries this banner at the head of each post. ** I’m intrigued by an...

Ruminating…..

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Busy writing a book review for Pragati Magazine that should be published on Friday. In lieu of a post, I wanted to make a few completely disconnected observations. First, Charles Cameron in his recent post on Pattern...