Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος
In principio erat Verbum
In the beginning was the Word
Nel mezzo del camin di nostra vita
2025-12-06
Since I'm now, according to the famous incipit, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, I thought I'd write to my younger self, something I'd have liked a Virgil to have taught me as I struggled to find my way out of the selva oscura.
Dostoevsky
2024-01-01
I met Dostoevsky, so to speak, a little more than a year ago. I won't go into how I got to “Crime and Punishment”, but reading it (in the span of a single weekend) was the principal — though not singular or initial — cause of the most profound transformation I have ever suffered: at the same time a reorientation of my life and the consummation of my personality, a reconciliation of every internal doubt I had about me and my choices (if one may call them that) in life.