PERFECTLY CLEAR

But now I have said that of all the good deeds a person does whilst under mortal sin not a single one remains, neither deeds nor time, and that is true in the meaning which I have just explained. I want to make it perfectly clear to you, even though it is contrary to every authority alive.

Meister Eckhart, The Sermons (“The fruits of good deeds live on”), trans. Raymond B. Blackney, 1941

Upper:  Andrea Mantegna, The Descent Into Limbo, painting, 1470-75

Lower:  Rudi Feld, The Dangers of Bolshevism, lithograph, 1919

Wailing Souls: Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall (Link)

Wailing Souls: Things and Time (Link)

 

PSEUDONYMING (COMES A TIME)

There was a time (a long time ago) when I thought of renaming myself for artistic and literary purposes “Claire Obscure.”

That idea was either supplanted or supplemented (I can’t exactly remember which; it was a long time ago) by another nom-de-plume, “Dottore Chiaroscuro.”  I remember exactly where I was when that idea came to me.  I was walking past a mysterious doorway in Rome during my only visit there.

But “Carlos Danger”?   Never ever.

Neil Young -- Comes A Time (Link)