So stoked to receive my copy of this gorgeous new issue of Story Literary Magazine!! Please check out my story and all the other great pieces.

Heidegger was wrong. Western philosophy’s forgetting of Being is traceable not to Plato, but to a misreading—a forgetting—of Plato. youtu.be/hLJeaWNUkaQ

Read “Heuristic” by Mir Arif in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: storymagazine.org/store/summer-2…

Our knowledge of the good is in some sense kinetic; it is in and through the action not of some separated reasoning mind but of the whole self, this human concretion of body and psyche. This is the heart of Platonic subversiveness and Platonic hope. youtu.be/xf5NudMH_8M

Reading H.D. Collected Poems 1912-1944. The summoning force of Oread gets me every time. Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir.

Temple of Zeus, Cyrene, Libya. Culture: Greek (Classical). Place of origin: Date: largely 5th century BC with later restorations.

Classic GMail trying to steal all the fun from my inbox.

'It was a reminder not only of how important spectacle often is in any sort of performance, but also of how intriguing for the audience is the way in which that spectacle works.' Mary Beard (mary beard) on stage Machinery: ancient and modern the-tls.com/regular-featur…

"13,000 pieces of graffiti survive in Pompeii, roughly one piece per member of the population... one graffito self-consciously comments, "I admire you, wall, for not having collapsed from carrying the tedious scribblings of so many writers" (CIL 4.1904). antigonejournal.com/2022/03/roman-…

Indeed she did. She did it again. Big kisses.

Gorgon (Medusa), West Pediment of the Temple of Artemis. Culture: Archaic Greek. Place of origin: Corcyra (Corfu). Date: c. 580 BC. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Corfu. Photographer: Dr.K.

Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers go.nature.com/4hIGQeo

Athenian “New Style” Tetradrachm. Culture: Greek, Athens. Date: c. 165–42 BC. Medium: Silver. Obv: Head of Athena. Rev: Owl standing on amphora within wreath. Collection: Staatliche Münzsammlung/Antikensammlungen, Munich. Photographer: ArchaiOptix

"For a quarter-century, a small team of researchers and word-smiths in Cambridge has been re-reading and re-assessing a significant portion of the Ancient Greek corpus (Homer to Plutarch), with the aim of producing an up-to-date lexicon of the language." antigonejournal.com/2021/08/cambri…

This epistolary novel could have been an email

Fair enough.

It’s my conviction that the main motivation of Plato was love, and so the goal driving his whole system is the sharing of deep or reasoned hope. The ladder of eros encapsulates Plato’s counter to existential despair, in both its forms. youtu.be/-ta4weVDKZY

Greek fibula fragments in the shape of a bird, ca. 420 BC. J. Paul Getty Museum.