Heading to Bucharest tomorrow.

Plumes of smoke from Israeli attacks were seen rising over Gaza hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan, brokered by Donald Trump.

Although I already have 4 editions of Dante’s Commedia, 2 Italian and 2 translations, I couldn’t say “no”.

A gift from a Serbian Orthodox man.

Reading the Hell Cantos by the Adriatic.

Congrats!

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

Great World Peace merch.

Found the hidden Orthodox church in Split (no pictures allowed of the inside).

“and our bodies also / Heavy with weeping”

Heading to Croatia and Romania with Pound’s Cantos, Kerr’s Christ, History and Apocalyptic, and Hart’s The Light of Tabor.

an anarcho-pastoral counter-Cantos, a poetics of militant innocence

If I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing (1 Cor 13:2)

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Happy Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Pray for us, little poor one.

Theyre Lee-Elliott | Crucified tree form – the agony

A new (original!) article from Marcello Tari, the Italian Catholic post-autonomist thinker and communist Marcello Tari, on the legacy of Pope Francis' thought, with reference to the Christian communist experiments of the Jesuit "reductions" in Paraguay. Enjoy. www.newpersonalism.net/the-mission-...