All posts in The Book of Pook And The Mill

Here is a quote from The Odyssey: Straightaway he thundered from shining Olympus, from on high from the place of the clouds; and goodly Odysseus was glad. Moreover, a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the…

There is something I call the “Richard II Disease.” In Shakespeare’s play, Richard II, the king (Richard II) was a weak man who, also, became a weak king. His throne was taken which began the War of the Roses (Shakespeare uses this play to begin a type of ‘trilogy’ with Henry IV Part I and…

There are two examples of the Ancient Context (i.e. the Mill) of which I want to share. The first is Kepler. Kepler was of the old order of total calculations and the ‘passionate devotion to the dream of rediscovering the “Harmony of the Spheres.”‘ (This can also be seen in Bach.) But let us consider…

Let us dive a little further into the Mill… Every era has invented its own ballads, romances, songs and fables to entertain it. That is another matter. But none of that truly concerns the ancient poet. The word poet means vates, which are a prophet and seer. When it comes to knowledge and law, it is referred…

I am currently reading Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Translators were seen differently then as they are today. Today, a translation must be “exactly what the source text is.” The translator is like a language scientist, passionlessly putting the words directly into our language. But, back in the day, all the translators were poets. And…

The Mill is like a thread that you can find running through all religions, all ancient civilizations, and throughout the ancient “poems.” The Mill is the cosmological scale. Think of it as a “super culture” a type of cultural Pangaea which, over the course of time, has broken into separate parts and drifted further from…

His world is but a stage, For the women to play their parts: They have their scripts and lines; And his world in life plays many stages, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Crying and puking in mommy’s arms, Understanding that when she is happy, The world is in order, and when she’s sad,…

Some might say that the feminists are annoyed that an article destroys their plans. This is silly because feminists are not that smart. They don’t have plans anyway. When I talk about “The Way,” I mean it. Feminists believe there is only one way and that there are no other options, no other choices, nothing.…

I want you to imagine this scenario: Imagine if the ‘social sciences’ such as Psychology and Sociology invade the Halls of Science and become the norm. Instead of any standard of science, sciences such as Physics and Biology become only a ‘theory’ and are never declared to be authoritative. All the ‘math’ and rigidity of…

Someone emailed this to me: I adore Christianity; it is a core part of who and what I am. I don’t go to church anymore. The reason? I do not feel welcome or wanted and that is completely because I am male. Yes, yes, I know … most of the leaders are men. So what?…