F.H.Buckley

The Sensibility of the Baroque

From Morris West: “Love in all its forms and degrees is a surrender of bodies in the small death of the bed, the surrender of the spirit in the great death, which is the moment of union between God and man.” The Devil’s Disciple. File under Crashaw, Richard, and Bernini, Gian Lorenzo.

On Culture

When I hear the word “pistol,” I reach for my culture. When I hear the word “aquaculture,” I reach for my water pistol.