Cloud Poetry

Blood, Class, and Empire (Excerpts)

The Enduring Anglo-American relationship, Christopher Hitchens, 1990

Blood, Class, and Empire

The Enduring Anglo-American relationship, Christopher Hitchens, 1990 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Astrology

Astrology articles that I read --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s

Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter, 1988, Stanford University Press

Art

Art blahblah --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Power of Images

Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg, The University of Chicago Press, 1989

Texts

What I’m reading today

El Dorado

The legend and history of El Dorado

Chaos as a Value in the Mythological background of Action Painting

By Alicja Kępińska and Patrick Lee. Source: Artibus et Historiae, Vol 7, No. 14 p107-123, 1986

Cooking

Ingredients and their origins --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Blahblahblah III

Don’t listen to this crap --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Chinese 中文

Intro to Chinese --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Handicap Signaling

Excerpts from theories of animal signaling

From Black Land to Fifth Sun (Excerpts)

The Science of Sacred Sites by Brian Fagan describes how archaeologists use modern science to study ancient cosmologies and religious beliefs. All archaeologists analyze the material remains of human behavior in the past using such durable funds as pottery, stone tools, building foundations, and food remains. In recent years some scholars have turned from the material to the intangible. They ask a question that was unthinkable even 20 years ago: what can archaeology tell us about the relation...

Gore Vidal quotes

A selection of Gore Vidal quotes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Evelyn Waugh quotes

In no particular order for no particular reason

Fragments

Stuff

Ester Teil

Oratorio for Good Friday by JS Bach

Sounds

Sounds

Yanyan’s Manifesto

A short code of behaviors and rules to go by: - Noninterference is the highest ideal - Nobody owes you anything: time, money, sympathy, attention - Learn your own history and the history of the industry and country in which you are operating within. - Just because you are dissatisfied with current circumstances of reality, it doesn’t deny the fact of those circumstances or the fact th...

Songs

Songs --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Daisy

Daisy

Children’s Songs

Ashes Ashes, We all fall Down! Giro Girotondo, quant'è bello il mondo il mondo dei bambini, con tanti fiorellini. Centocinquanta, la gallina canta, canta sola sola, non vuole andare a scuola, la gallina bianca e nera, ti dà la buonasera ti dà la buonanotte, il lupo è dietro la porta, la porta casca giù, il lupo non c'è più A terra tutti giù!

Shakespeare

A few short monologues

Singing

Attempts

On Leisure: Seneca

'We wear the helmet when our locks are grey.' We are they who are so far from indulging in any leisure until we die, that if circumstances permit it, we do not allow ourselves to be at leisure even when we are dying. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

EROTICA ROMANA By Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The Roman Elegies (originally published under the title Erotica Romana in Germany, later Römische Elegien) is a cycle of twenty-four poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They reflect Goethe's Italian Journey from 1786 to 1788 and celebrate the sensuality and vigour of Italian and Classical culture. Written mainly after his return to Weimar, they contain poems on many sexual themes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today (Chinese)

A short account of the day

Latin

Segments from Filia Piratae and more Latin Prayers --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Grapes of Wrath

Excerpt from John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX: APOLOGY

In 1115 Bernard became abbot of the new Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux, a position he held until his death in 1153. Bernard had little time to tend his flock, though, since he soon became a religious superstar. Recognized as the foremost preacher of his day, he traveled widely, wrote prolifically, and was involved to the hilt in papal politics, opposition to heresy, and the planning of a crusade. Bernard was the chief spokesman for Cistercian values. Monastic life was to be austere and di...

Stabat mater

Stabat Mater Dolorosa is considered one of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time. It is based upon the prophecy of Simeon that a sword was to pierce the heart of His mother, Mary (Lk 2:35). The hymn originated in the 13th century during the peak of Franciscan devotion to the crucified Jesus and has been attributed to Pope Innocent III (d. 1216), St. Bonaventure, or more commonly, Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306), who is considered by most to be the real author. STABAT...

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