Editor's Foreword
Foreword by the Publications Director. On silence, solitude, and the search for clarity amid the noise of the age.
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Issue I - Blue Winter
On solitude, clarity, and the world as it withdraws.
Short Story: The Reader Digests
A short fiction piece about the self-mythology of a mediocre man.
Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views
Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?
A Liberal Case for Natural Law
Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?
POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About
“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.
POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee
My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.
Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self
Great art can help us experience our most fundamental humanity.
POEM: Five Poems by Sanjeev Sethi
We let no flügelhorn animate the atmosphere.
Our presence drew the stelliferous to a party
of two. In the reign of rhythms, we repeatedly
heard our song; meaningful to us but mute to
the others. That is how strains are or should be.
A Chance to Make It
Cosmic re-enactment in the path of Ars Regia.
POEM: Corpuscules in Corners
I want to work back to that intuition I had of the infinity of the self— that this world is bursting at its seams and margins with the divine. Is coming home to oneself like turning from ashes and ashes to dust in corners?