Call me to your company, distant sun!Tear me from all this earthly pettiness.The dormant blazes of my feathers dawnAs skyward mirrors to your effulgence.Concentric tower of spiraling winds—Climb me towards undisturbed solitudeWhere people shrink to stains remote and dimUnder rolling seas of infinit…
This week’s newsletter was originally about David Lynch. However, I received an interesting email from a reader last week regarding my previous post about Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. With their permission I publish what they wrote to me so I can answer on my blog:“I don’t get how you can criticize No…
I quite admire the work of Robert Eggers, particularly his first two films The Witch and The Lighthouse. Though I enjoyed elements of his Nosferatu, like the magnificent opening sequence, the exquisite monologues, the overall originality and thematic ambition of the film (this is a story that has b…
I vividly remember the first time I saw a planet through a telescope. Though I had read many books about space travel, and seen countless images of the different worlds of our Solar System, nothing compared to the moment when I glimpsed Saturn so quiet and still in the night sky. What was most appa…
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