Rebecca WestA collection of 13 posts

Women

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are...

Trust

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each othe...

Science

Before a war military science seems a real science like astronomy but after a w...

Music

Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.

Mom

Motherhood is the strangest thing it can be like being one's own Trojan ho...

Life

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fert...

Knowledge

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imper...

Intelligence

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the ne...

History

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell o...

Experience

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither an...