This page is very much a work in progress. It is intended to be a sort of microblog, a place to share things quickly --- not longer posts, not ongoing notes. But I am still figuring out what that looks like, especially in terms of formatting.
Transubstantiation and Change Over Time
From
Jordan Kisner, "He is Risen"
In Leonardo DaVinci's rendering, Jesus and the apostles sit before a table laid with a white cloth upon which has been scattered an assortment of what look like modern dinner rolls. [...] In Peter Paul Rubens's version, Jesus holds what looks like a miche tenderly in both hands. In Agostino Caracci's, a braided basket overflowing with brioche lingers underneath the table.
Under-the-hood of writing on Substack
From
Hannah Ritchie at Sustainability by Numbers
If you have something to say, you need to get used to the fact that hardly anyone reads your work (or watches your video, or listens to your podcast) at the beginning. But post semi-interesting things consistently, and people will follow along.
The mental pabulum purveyed by this establishment probably answered to the needs of Leo's brothers and sisters; but for him, the eldest, it was quite insufficient."
-- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
I want to see the caterpillar, his whole body
a fat neck, rolling hills and horripilation.
I want to remember how, every time
he dropped from some leaf to my arm,
we appalled each other. I want to remember
-- Jane Zwart, "All my life I was a bride married to amazement"