notes

shorts, fragments, travel notes, culture, books, and all those stray observations that shape perspective

byzantium: the early centuries

"our civilization has never adequately acknowledged the debt it owes to the Empire of the East," writes John Julius Norwich in the introduction of this magnificent book. In very rare occasions, historians rise to the level of the history they are narrating. This is one of those occasions.

Sep 30

the odyssey

It was a long overdue debt with “literature.” A checkmark on a list of titles that the scholarly-bent reader thinks is required to enter the dignified club of literarte.

Jul 8

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