Author: Andrew Taggart
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On layaways, one-click drunk shopping, and being an idiot
Philosophers are idiots. Evidence for this claim abounds. First off, we’re easily confused. Because of this, we spend much of our days asking for explanations concerning the most elementary truths. Second off, we don’t readily understand topics that everyone else immediately gets, so we’re always asking people to slow down and show us again how…
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On night visions and homecomings
On the way to the airport well before dawn, my middle sister told me about the recurring nightmares she’d had when she was a girl. There was the one about the angry man with the red eyes. The one about my mother who’d become the mean witch from the Wizard of Oz. And the one…
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On fata morgana
The boy I was in third grade headstrong for summer. The last day of school promising happiness, bringing sadness. Friends, acquaintances, occasional playmates all departing. Alone walking home. An error in desire. An intimation, surely, of errors to come.
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Aesthetics, ethics, and justice ask to be brought into harmony
Beyond my bedroom window: pigeons atop a barren tree amid the autumn drizzle. * Beyond the living room window: a birch tree, leaves burnt by fire, hoary frost unworldly. Brief Reflections 1. To see an object properly, discriminatively, is to be attentive to its demands. 2. The object asks to be loved. Will you love…
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On Anne Page’s courage
The woman was beautiful and strong but sad. Doubtless she married badly. Evidence for this can be perceived in her slightly downcast left eye; in her stilted, rigid left hand; in the spine that gives the impression of needing to be held up by strength of will. To one with her aesthetic temperament, life had…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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