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Downton Abbey and the Lost Art of Beautiful Language
I’m watching Downton Abbey for the second time, and something about it has begun to bother me. Not the characters. Not the story. It’s the way they speak. And the more I listen, the more I notice something unsettling about the way we speak today. Continue reading
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I Watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Why I Still Prefer Homer
I said I would never watch Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Then I gave in. A reflection on the movie, Homer’s poem, and why some books belong on the page. Continue reading
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The House With Too Many Keys
Some doors were never meant to be counted. A poem about private rooms, old rules, wandering vines and the things that refuse to remain where they are planted. Continue reading
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The Mole Who Stopped Waiting
A deeply melancholic short story about Elio, a mole who slowly stops caring about the things he once loved, and eventually stops waiting for anything at all. Continue reading
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Why I Won’t Watch Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey looks enormous and spectacular. That is partly why I would rather return to Homer, where the real journey is not about monsters but identity, memory, storytelling, and the strange difficulty of coming home. Continue reading
