Recent "Eats"

I just finished an essay by Gore Vidal on "Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars." He seems to appreciate how Graves doesn't tidy the Caesars up like many folk do, or more to the point, interpret each as an aberration from a supposed norm. No. According to Vidal, this is what the typical person would do with absolute power. Some of this seems to be a defense of Vidal's own understanding of sexuality. But it also seems to overlap with certain corollaries of a staunch doctrine of Original Sin. In any case, along with Vidal, I do prefer those writers who don't tidy things up too much.

I've also read a couple of essays by G.K. Chesterton recently. There is a lot of cheap Chesterton available for the Kindle.