Felix Culpa
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Law Enforcement or Security
- Occupation: Philosophical Policeman
- Location: Russia
About Me
When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in "Superstition the Vampire" and "Priests of Prey." I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder "Down! down! Presumptuous human reason!" they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all. I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor. Then I tried being a major. Now, I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like Nietzsche, admire violence – the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. I drew my sword and waved it constantly. I called out "Blood!" abstractly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, "Let the weak perish; it is the Law!" Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again.
Interests
- Orthodox Christianity
- theology
- Biblical criticism
- historical theology
- Christology
- liturgics
- monasticism
- patristics
- patrology
- patristic hermeneutics
- canon law
- apologetics
- imiaslavie
- literature
- poetry
- literary criticism
- literary theory
- philosophy
- epistemology
- conservatism
- paleoconservatism
- late antiquity
- mood disorders
- Church history
- Byzantine history
- Russian history
- English grammar
- OED
- Greek
- Russian
- Slavonic
- New Criticism
Favorite Movies
- My Dinner with Andre
- Vanya on 42nd Street
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Dazed and Confused
- The Big Lebowski
- Dancer in the Dark
Favorite Music
Favorite Books
- The Bible
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Athanasius
- Irenaeus
- Maximus the Confessor
- Basil of Ceasarea
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory Nazianus
- Evagrius
- Gregory Palamas
- Philokalia
- John Behr
- Andrew Louth
- Georges Florovsky
- Vladimir Lossky
- Justin Popovich
- Michael Pomazansky
- John Meyendorff
- Shakespeare
- Pushkin
- Gogol
- Lermontov Chekhov
- Turgenev
- Dostoevsky
- Akhmatova
- Blok
- Bulgakov
- Solzhenitsyn
- Evelyn Waugh
- C. S. Lewis
- C. K. Chesterton
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- P. D. James
- Leo Strauss
- Russell Kirk
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Wittgenstein
- Oscar Wilde
- Flannery O'Connor
- James Wood
- George Eliot
- Dickens
- T. S. Eliot
- Allan Bloom
- Harold Bloom
- Marilynne Robinson
Felix Culpa's Blogs
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