by Charles Cameron | Sep 13, 2016 | Monitor
[ 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...
by zen | Apr 22, 2015 | Monitor
[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....
by Charles Cameron | May 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ 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...
by zen | Dec 4, 2013 | Monitor
As the holiday season is here, I thought it would be amusing between now and Christmas to do a series of posts on books by people who have, in some fashion, been friends of ZP by supporting us with links, guest-posts, friendly comments and other intuitive gestures of...
by zen | Oct 22, 2013 | Monitor
[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...