Aphorikles·Aug 4, 2020The Leviathan: Post Mortemin December 2018, i was taking a shower & thinking — as i’m sure many do — about Plato’s allegory of the cave & our unending search for…
Aphorikles·Aug 20, 2019Aldous Huxley’s Brave New WorldThe original article, as well as audio & video versions, are available free at https://perceptua.blue/literature/brave-new-world/
Aphorikles·Jun 21, 2019Why Do We Like What We Like?Why is it that some artists make us wish we could spend eternity with their work, while others make us wish we could have our time back?
Aphorikles·Oct 28, 2018A GlimpseI placed the last of the dishes on the drying rack, rung the water from the sponge, and turned off the sink. Moving aside, I searched with…A response icon1A response icon1
Aphorikles·Apr 6, 2018The RiverCertainty is impossibility. You face the insurmountable in unwinding the dense tangles of your fate with nature untamed, and on beginning…
Aphorikles·Dec 30, 2017A Very Brief Analysis of WeirdI’m going to make an attempt at a short, semi-satirical description of what we call weird. Let’s begin with culture. Culture is defined by…
Aphorikles·Nov 19, 2017Behind the White Teeth of WinterThe wind blew cold and strong. It bit his ears. The frost bit his lips. It had eaten his fingers days ago, and his toes before that. His…
Aphorikles·Oct 24, 2017The Prime MoverWhat is discipline? I am told it is something cold, something we wake to in the mornings with gritted teeth and begrudgingly greet though…
Aphorikles·Oct 14, 2017The InkwellAlasdair Duncan sat in his study, his glasses on the middle of his nose and his nose in the middle of a heavy manuscript. It was the third…
