Dan ThompsonJan 9, 20227 minWhose Nature?Beauty is of the Earth, Art is of Nature Whose Nature? Not mine. There are two approaches to nature writing, which double as the two...
Dan ThompsonNov 17, 20219 minRemembrances of Things Past: The Recovery of TimeOn Childhood and Proust Intro: Wildflower Wildflower, on its most fundamental, intimate and personal level is what it is like to be a...
Dan ThompsonJul 19, 20215 minThe Phenomenology of Reading BrilliantlyWilliam Gass might be the oldest and most important writer you have never heard of (post in the comments if you are familiar with this...
Dan ThompsonMay 1, 20213 minOn the Strangeness of Natural Things and the Naturalness of Strange ThingsArt critic, André Gide describes Henri Michaux’s fascination with ‘the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange...