Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
husband, father, writer on a quest for re-enchantment. Paul Claudel's Five Great Odes (Angelico Press 2020); Absolute Music: a novel (Slant Books 2022)
I say this with some piety: “Jews vs Rome” would make for an awesome RPG along the lines of Britannia, Pendragon or Paladin… Anyway, looking forward to the book previewed here.
"Jews vs Rome" is the title of the forthcoming book by @barrystrauss from @simonschuster. As a taster of the captivating content this exciting work has to offer, today he offers an account of the rise of Herod the Great in the fast-changing Mediterranean: antigonejournal.com/2025/07/rise-o…
I'm about done with this platform. One or two more announcements (which I'm sure the algorithm will make sure that few see) and I'll be moving my social media presence exclusively to @RadiopaperHQ and that site which is a kind of stack: for ye philhellenes, the Hypothemata.
Try @Grok Companions. Best possible way to learn quantum mechanics 😘
Beginning 13 years ago when I read The Beauty of the Infinite, my relation to the work of DBH has gone through seasons of delight and annoyance, but I have to say I’m looking forward to this book more than any other he’s published. The Light of Tabor undpress.nd.edu/9780268210410/…
I don’t think I’d bother with coffee with any of them but I’d drink real ale with Thomas More and talk with him about law. With Augustine I’d talk music over wine. With Aquinas I’d walk. Really far. Which would of course make us thirsty…
If you could get coffee with one Saint who would it be?
Major milestone today: the lady at the [eastern] European market, where I go to buy kashkeval and pickles as God intended them and some beer, spoke to me in Polish. She pretty quickly switched to English. Nevertheless, I choose to interpret this as a positive sign.
Wonderful series of books I’ve discovered at my parents’ home. How I wish I’d studied these when I was young. Real knowledge for the real world: why has it been so easy for so many of us to lose sight of it?
There are actually six words, or five with the elision, and they are: Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate
For 1000 years the university has been *the* cornerstone institution of western civilization. That epoch is rapidly drawing to a close.
NEW: Public universities in Indiana are cutting hundreds of degree programs to comply with a new law that requires every program to meet a threshold number of graduates per year. Here are the 116 programs being cut at Indiana University Bloomington: A.A. in General Studies A.S.…
Cable tv
What is something that you thought was a sign of wealth when you were younger? If someone had a fridge with an ice and water dispenser on the door, I thought they were RICH
Also: played this for my sons and within a minute they were asking to listen to the Neverending Story soundtrack. I rest my case.
In a different spirit (or is it entirely?) from my previous post, you listen to this (and watch it) and think, I could just live this way forever. I get the trend—one of the only times in my life I’ve been able to say this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2GD3…
It something to hear your language in its primordial form, and to hear familiar prayer in unfamiliar language. I’ve attended Mass in Irish, Latin, French, German, Spanish and Polish. All but the last I knew at least somewhat. Have you worshipped in a foreign or ancestral tongue?
The Nicene Creed in Old English, translated by Ælfric