I write quite a bit in my free time. Though most of my writing is in the form of the beginnings of books that will never be finished, occasionally I actually complete something short enough to make into a nice little HTML file. Here are a few old poems and things, and some recent papers that actually turned out halfway decently in case you care to read 'em, check out their bibliographies for your own research, or whatever. Just don't snatch 'em and stick your name on them, leaving me sadly creditless, because that would piss me off. =)

Oh, and I read even more than I write. I keep a little book list of recommended good reads, and may occasionally add reflections of my own about the works listed. Who knows: someone may find it interesting some day.

Papers

• Philosophy
  • The Weight of Words: Authority and the Interpretation of Scripture in Hobbes and Rousseau
    1 December 2000.
• History
  • Attitudes Towards Charity in Renaissance Florence
    25 September 2000.
  • The Suburban Housewife in Postwar Japan: Myth and Reality
    13 October 2000.
  • A Mind Beyond Categorization:Baruch Spinoza's Life as a Churchless Intellectual in Early Modern Europe
    14 May 2001.

• Literature
  • Romola's Fathers: The Question of Authority in George Eliot's Romola
    27 February 2000
  • Books and Literature in The English Patient
    28 April 2000

• Art History
  I got lazy about footnoting these, but all the sources are in the bibliography. It is very bad of me to be too lazy to footnote them now, but, um, just look at the bibliographies, 'k, and know that I'm mostly regurgitating ideas of those guys.
  • The Brancacci Chapel: Examples of Fresco and Secco
    31 January 2000
  • Two Palaces: The Work of Michelozzo and Alberti
    20 February 2000
  • Masterpieces in Portraiture: Mona Lisa and Battista Sforza
    5 March 2000
  • The Influences of Savonarola Upon Botticelli
    26 March 2000
  • Nudes in Action: Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Ten Nudes and Michelangelo's Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs
    10 April 2000

• Free Verse
  • January Wind
    3 October 1996
• Sonnets
  • For You
    1 October 1997
• The Present and the End: A Dialogue
  2 December 1997
  • The One Who Doubts Speaks
  • The One Who Knows Answers
  • The One Who Doubts' Lament
  • The One Who Knows' Reply
  • The One Who Doubts in Fear
  • The One Who Knows Reassures
  • Epilogue

• Fables
  • The Elephants, the Asses and the Polliwog
    21 February 1997
  • The Pheasant and the Inter-Forest Super-Flyway
    21 February 1997