Lucus

“It is, then, a miserable kind of spiritual slavery to interpret signs as things, and to be incapable of raising the mind’s eye above the physical creation so as to absorb the eternal light.” — Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

The letter kills but the spirit gives life

Anything in the divine discourse that cannot be related

Either to good morals or to the true faith,

To love or understanding,

Should be taken as figurative

Grammata, allegory, enigma, parable,

So may you flourish and float

Inside the piscina

Catachresis

The mouse that clicks but does not squeak

Irony and antiphrasis

In the darkest grove there is no light

And we are scrambling shadows in the

Shiver of a match flame