Sophisticated Despair
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I was speaking with someone in sophisticated despair – what a sorry state – he had worked himself into quite a frenzy. […]
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Thoughts on the Late Leaves of Winter
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There is no life in them. I have a pile of these dead leaves in my garden, accumulated over the winter, dashed […]
One After the Truth
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I was sitting at a café when I got to talking with a woman who happened to sit across from me. I […]
Of Time and Dreams
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I had a dream that I was assaulted by three men. One of them granted that “I had had enough”. I didn’t […]
Two Beautiful Dictionaries
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Between 1870 and the turn of the 20th century, two books were written that despite their distance of creation (the Atlantic separated […]
Some Slightly Cynical Aphorisms on Travelling
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog People no doubt stomach the frustration of touristic spots, especially historic ones, because the place is worth seeing; you can even get […]
On Resolutions for a New Year
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I have nothing against contemplating and making changes to your life when quietude and time afford it, but as any contemplater knows, […]
Carlo Gesualdo – Renaissance Composer + More
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The Late Renaissance composer enjoyed a rebirth of interest in the early twentieth century, some three hundred years after his death, with […]
The Art of Journaling
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There can be a stifling freedom around a blank page, and that is all a journal is; a collection of blank pages. […]
A Few Words on Coleridge
By Fraser Hibbitt There is something lovable in the cursory brain. I had read Virginia Woolf describing the poet, Coleridge, as ravenously talking for hours on end about anything his […]