Sallust, Les Miserables,

Rosa Luxembourg, Eric Hobsbawm,

Proudhon’s "What is Government?", The Accursed Questions,

Paradise Lost, the Earl Of Rochester, Rhetorica ad Herennium,

A.D. Hope’s Australia, Untimely Meditations, Molière, Revolt of the Masses,

Darkness At Noon, Vaclav Havel, Waugh’s Decline And Fall, Gatsby, Carlyle’s French

Revolution, King Lear, Brideshead, Modernity on Endless Trial, The Greeks & The Irrational,

The Nine Worthies, J.G. Hamann: Magus of the North, Euripides, Friedrich Schiller, The Gay Science,

Broch’s Sleepwalkers, Stefan Zweig and The World of Yesterday, Heraclitus, Redemption by War, La Setta

d’i Cattivi, Charles Hamilton Sorley, La Vendée,  Burke’s French Revolution, Beethoven, Charles I, Macpherson’s Lament, Nietzsche’s House, Thomas Browne, the Ave Verum Corpus, a Masonic Prayer, Critics of Modernity, Karl Kraus and Die Fackel, the Tyranny of the Eunuchs, Baudelaire’s Journaux Intimes, Thomas Mann, South Park, Cicero’s Speeches, Chesterbelloc, Paul Valéry, The Nature of Gothic, Newman’s Definition of a Gentleman, Daphne and Apollo, William Drummond, Zarathustra’s Prologue, The Stones of Venice, Jonathan Swift and the Battle of the Books, T.S. Eliot, Charles Péguy, Dante, Hamlet, Strega Cream and more Hamlet, Lucretius on

The Nature of Things, Ayn Rand, Chateaubriand’s Memoirs, Peter and Wendy, 4 definitions of Acedia,

Pascal’s Pensees, Eugène Delacroix, Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Rupert Brooke,

Waugh on Ruskin, Berlin on Verdi and Tchaikovsky on Brahms, even more Hamlet,

Nikolai Berdyaev, Christopher Dawson, Dostoevsky, Savonarola,
Ruskin’s Earth Veil, John the Dwarf, a Sicilian Cathedral,
Kenneth Clark’s Young Michelangelo

—and travelling to measure

with our hearts & see

with our eyes...

The Prophet Ezekiel,
Nietzsche versus Ruskin, St Augustine & Wagner,
Gulliver’s Travels, the Renaissance, William Morris & Socialism,
Joan of Arc, Futurism, Peacocks, Oxford University, The Aeneid, Lord Byron,
Switzerland, P.G. Wodehouse, Juvenal, Ancient Rome, the pre-Raphaelites, Camille Paglia,

Jerry Seinfeld’s Three Rules of Life, John Henry Newman, Verona, Henry James, C.S. Lewis & the
Weight of Glory, Lao Tzu & the Tao Te Ching, Tsunemoto’s Book of the Samurai, Buddhism, the history of Thailand, The Aeneid, Tennyson’s Ulysses, General Patton, Jerusalem, Gandhi, Rome, The Man Who Would

be King, Cambodia, Scotland and the English Civil War, Bangkok, Spoliation, Napoleon, the Book of
Proverbs, Gustav Mahler, Winston Churchill, Einstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Casanova, Chaucer, the Vietnam War, the Koran, Thucydides, John F. Kennedy, Romanticism, Anarchism, Albrecht Dürer, Hinduism, World War 2, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo and the History of Art, Ares the Greek God of War—Murugan: Hindu God

of War, Love, and Youth—Freud, Evelyn Waugh, Travel, and Writing, Theodore Roosevelt, God & Atomic Warfare, Humanism, Dorothy L. Sayers, Zeus Ammon, The Kings of Thailand, more Nietzsche: Beyond

Good & Evil, Southern India, the Nuremberg Chronicle, Durga the Serene Mother Goddess, Harold Bloom, Nostalgia, the Death of the Greek God Pan, Gibbon’s Decline & Fall, Titian, Jim Carrey on ‘making it’, 

Atheism, As You Like It, Ruskin on Turner, Turner’s Approach to Venice, the Wrath of Achilles,
Goethe on Nature, Ernst Haeckel’s dead wife seen in a jellyfish,
Rousseau, some Walter Crane Peacocks, Culture

as 'Sweetness and Light'.

Freud and Shakespeare,

Orson Welles & Vienna, Carpaccio & faith,

James Joyce on love, an 18th-century map of Da Nang, Richard

Burton’s diaries, Elizabeth Taylor’s haemorrhoids, Autotelism, Festina Lente—

making haste slowly—Csikszentmihalyi (good luck with that one), Martin Luther King,

Romeo & Juliet, Zoöphagy, Charlie Chaplin, Furta Sacra—Holy Theft, Lord Byron’s life, letters,

& manuscripts, Bayesian Networks, Russia & Sovereign Democracy, Creative Destruction,

The Story of Adventure, William F. Buckley, Thomas Jefferson, The Crusades, Israeli Honey Traps,

Tancred de Hauteville, The Battle of Marathon, Booze, Birds, The Western Canon, Origen’s testicles,
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Harold Bloom, Divine Madness, Plato, To Save a Forest Virgin, Flaubert’s Letters, The Twilight of the Idols, The Rite of Spring, Theodore Herzl, Robert Hughes, Rossetti’s wombat, Aivazovsky, Hungarian Chieftains, Aldus Manutius and the Aldine Press, Dido & Aeneas, Eric Cartman, Sartre on Tintoretto, Religion and War, Erasmus’ Proverbs, Shokunin and Samurai, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Robert Byron, Byzantium, Danny McBride, The Fourth Crusade, the letters of Henry James, Utagawa Hiroshige, 
A Christian Preface to Paradise Lost, The Dutch East India Company, Democracy in America,

the Oath of the Peacock, Rembrandt, the Wicked Bible, Emerson’s Essays, The Sitwells, Hokusai,

the Kranok, jade peacocks, Fra Angelico, Holy Fools, Nabokov’s reputation, The Vietnam War, Waugh
on Greene and Greene on Waugh, Read’s English Prose Style, Himmaphan—Thailand’s Enchanted Forest, 

The Quiet American, James Thurber, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Moshe Dayan, Solzhenitsyn,
Don Quixote, An Apology for Idlers, A Moveable Feast, Luigi Zoja and the limits of growth,
The Greeks & Hubris, Rumpelstiltskin, Stephen Fry on Art, Stalin and his Purges,

Humour under Communism, a biography of Wagner, Burton’s
Anatomy of Melancholy, Norm Macdonald, The Ring Cycle,
Banksy on Brandalism, Kundera on Europe,

and Spengler’s Decline
of The West.

Ruskin’s Two Paths,
Brave New World Revisited, White Elephants,
Hokusai’s Li Bo,  Spengler’s Faustian Cathedrals, Ezra Pound,
The Forest Rebel, Thai Cremation Books, Lost Japan & Bangkok Found,

Burmese Sacrifices, a 4000-year-old griffin, Bob Dylan on Rock & Roll, Lai Thai designs,

Freedom and its Betrayal, What the Buddha Taught, Scruton’s Conservatism, God and the Atom,
The Denial of Death, The Birth of Tragedy, Michelangelo’s Dream, Edith Hamilton’s Greek Way,
The Ship of Theseus, Gilbert Murray on Greek Religion, Nietzsche’s Pre-Platonic Philosophers,
The Founding Fathers at Home,  The Anatomy of Restlessness, Burckhardt’s Greeks & Greek Culture,
Slavoj Žižek on freedom, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Chiron and Wisdom & Strength, Pope’s Iliad,

‘Plato to Nato’, Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism, a prayer to elephants—and their human wet nurses, 

Ted Kaczynski, Siva Nataraja, Malraux’s Anti-memoirs, Ayn Rand in Playboy, Alan Watts and fools,

Tintoretto’s only peacock, Adorno & Horkheimer on The Culture Industry, The Devil’s Dictionary,

Euripides and Free Speech, Diogenes on Exile, Tolstoy on Government, Achilles and Fate, Nietzsche and Socialism, The Illusion of Explanatory Depth, Theognis on Hubris, Plato and the Gods,  The Old Oligarch, Bertrand Russell in China, Gad Saad and The Parasitic Mind, Werner Jaeger on Aeschylus,

Vietnamese Scroll Seals, Oscar Wilde’s Soul of Man, Thomas Wolfe on Loneliness,

South Park’s Mohammed, The Scorpion & the Frog, Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor,

de Tocqueville and Individuality, Simone Weil’s Need for Roots,

Madison’s 10th Federalist, Sophocles and Hope,

Ruskin’s Athena, & Homer on Death.

The Comforts of Unreason,
Antifragility, Ezra Pound on Patronage,
The Red Terror, Peter Cook,  Isaiah Berlin on Alexander Herzen,
Alexander Herzen on Liberty, The Overton Window, The Rigveda, The Iliad,
Marxism, Mass Psychology,  Jaywalking, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty, Schrödinger’s Cat,
Tobacco, Jack Handey, Albert Einstein, Whaling,  The Manhattan Project,  
Skin in the Game, Original Debt, Sophocles’ Antigone, Risk, Khmer Art, Kahneman on Thinking,
John Locke, Norm Macdonald, The Life of Themistocles, The Gulag Archipelago,
Powys’ Meaning of Culture, Hunter S. Thompson, Le Grand Autre, Pluralism,
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, The Bacchae, Churchill on Bolshevism, Žižek on Totalitarianism,

Communist Science, The Road to Serfdom, Penguins, The Oresteia, The Marx Brothers,
Marcuse & Memory, Melville & Annihilation, Electra & Orestes, Schopenhauer on Tragedy,
The McNamara Fallacy, War in Ukraine, Abe Lincoln on Equality, Thucydides on Hope,
Quantum Physics, Nikolai Vavilov, Touristification, Fuck-You Money, Bureaucracy,
Auden on Nietzsche, Hazlitt on Hamlet, Soviet Morality, Niels Bohr,
Feynman on Education, The Golden Rule, 'Live & Let Live', Political Correctness,

Evolutionary Epistemology, Chomsky on Bakunin, Stefan Zweig on Travel, 

Essentially Contested Concepts, Kleos Aphthiton, Mark Twain on Statistics,

Mycenaean Art, God's Dice-Playing, Euripides on Knowledge, 

Lev Landau, Penis-Shrinking Syndrome, Monism,

—and Ancient Greece’s worst

possible insult.

Ovid’s Cures for Love,

The Genealogy of Morals, Diderot’s Myth of Tahiti,

George Steiner on Greek Tragedy, The Later Roman Empire, 

The Delphic Oracle’s opinion of the Athenians, Gary Shandling on Zen,

Bertrand Russel praising idleness, Cambodian inscriptions, The Heroic Temper,

The Soviet Encyclopaedia, Michael Hudson on Debt, The Vietnam War’s Top 10 songs,

Baudelaire coining the term ‘modernity’,Tony Poe, The Will to Power, The Guerre d’Indochine,

The Fall of Saigon, The Mahabharata & Time, George Carlin on Politics, Adam Smith on Wealth,

The Peloponnesian War, Lame Deer’s Great Spirit, Kazantzakis’ epitaph, Varoufakis on Communism,

people who hate Shorts, Adorno on Popular Music, Voltaire’s Equality & Madame de Staël on Voltaire,

Nietzsche on confusing Cause & Consequence, Bob Dylan on Social Media, Graeber’s Dawn of Everything,

Robert Byron in Russia, Abraham Lincoln on Wage Slavery, Aristophanes, Hitchens on Che Guevara,

Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer Liberation Front,  Qi & The Dragon’s Pearl, Helvétius on Money,

Spengler on the Romans, Seinfeld on Funny versus Cool, Michael Palin on Monty Python,

Kondiaronk the Huron on European Morals, Arthur Miller's Year America Fell Apart,

Franz Kafka on staying single, Civilisation & its Discontents, The Oresteia, 

D.H. Lawrence on Australia and Bertrand Russell on D.H. Lawrence, 

The Buddha on Self-Mastery, Conan O’Brien on reading History,

John Ruskin on English, the genius who was Linguet,

William Morris & Norse Religion, Slavery in Islam,  

—& Flaubert’s attraction to

  Greek Sculpture!