Archive - Grand Hotel Abyss

Weekly Readings #160 (02/24/25-03/02/25)

art still has truth

Mar 2 •

February 2025

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part I

the spirit that says no

Feb 28 •

2:10:24

Weekly Readings #159 (02/17/25-02/23/25)

Feb 23 •

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aristotle's Poetics and Longinus's On the Sublime

catharsis, ecstasy

Feb 21 •

2:11:28

Weekly Readings #158 (02/10/25-02/16/25)

a text is not a text

Feb 16 •

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Plato's Ion, Symposium, and Phaedrus

the place beyond heaven

Feb 14 •

2:18:32

Weekly Readings #157 (02/03/25-02/09/25)

neither reverence nor contempt

Feb 9 •

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aristophanes's Lysistrata and Euripides's Medea and Bacchae

let the world's great order be reversed

Feb 7 •

2:12:58

On Bruce Wagner's Remarkable Oeuvre

Published on The Metropolitan Review • Feb 3

Weekly Readings #156 (01/27/25-02/02/25)

nonsense and nonsensibility

Feb 2 •

January 2025

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Sophocles's Theban Plays

count no man happy till he dies

Jan 31 •

2:01:59

Weekly Readings #155 (01/20/25-01/26/25)

publicists and purists

Jan 26 •

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