Eric Scheske

I've always received the notion of "acoustic space" with a skeptical attitude. It's my standard knee-jerk disposition toward any notion coeval with the vacuous pop art concepts of the 1960s and 1970s. But I've warmed up to the concept now that

Maybe rock-n-roll has been wildly popular and rock stars the object of disproportionate admiration because art has dropped to a low level of appreciation in our culture. In a culture where art isn't appreciated, lower forms of art will step in to fulfill that primordial human

Top Ten List of Schallian Points found in The Unseriousness of Human Affairs: 10. Higher education is today largely a matter of private enterprise, good fortune, and reading things that few assign or praise. 9. We must first ask to see before we shall see. 8. We must philosophize with

Free Time True free time is time that is free from the exigencies of work and the requirement to play. In true free time the highest things are offered. Remember that before filling your weekends with incessant activities and your weekdays with twelve hours of work. And if you find

No person does anything unless it strikes them as good, but only a bestial person does something solely because it feels good.

Easter When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld "him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a

Holy Saturday By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa: "The

Good Friday No one ever experienced the plunge down the vacuum of evil as did God's Son--even to the excruciating agony behind the words: "My God, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus was really destroyed. Cut off in the flower of his age;

A Little Boswell In his fine book, The Unseriousness of Human Affairs, James Schall recounts a dinner attended by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The occasion: the first gathering of a small group of friends with Mrs. Violette Garrick since the death of her husband, the actor David Garrick. The

Vanity: "that self-assertion which imposes one's ego on others." F. L. Lucas