“My favorite customers were the cliques of intellectuals and writers and their fringes of lovers, admirers, and imitators. These groups often occupied several tables pushed together and filled with a picturesquely wide assortment of espresso cups, latte glasses, cake and dinner plates. There were mugs still foaming with draft beer, balloon wine glasses designed to […]
Continue reading“Night had now come. Fairy light, from a waxing, gibbous moon that looked like a stone skull leaning back against the sky, a head colored in chamois and yoke yellow, its face blotchy and weathered as if from a thousand battles and a million tribulations, played upon the woods, streams, and rocks around their tent. […]
Continue reading“Spirit is Truth and Light, Eternity, Infinity, and Love. It is that from which all souls and all apparent creation are made. In it all are One. It is not matter, but matter could not exist without it. It is not mind, but mind could not shine without its Light. It is not emotion, but […]
Continue reading“But if there was a street that loudly trumpeted one’s arrival in royal lands, that passed the gates leading into the aristocratic residences, to the locus of wealth and prestige, where a silent decree required that one leave behind any semblance of or association with middle-class life before entering the precinct, it was Cambridge Avenue. […]
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