The Cruise of the Nona Pamphlets en la música que escuchamos

en la música que escuchamos o interpretamos

estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite

Anchored in the arcana of ancient and modern history

Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass

and make fun of himself—and most everything else—for the sake of his sanity and the health of the world

The Cruise of the Nona Pamphlets en la música que escuchamosIn The Cruise of the Nona, Hilaire Belloc sets off to sail the English seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul. On one level a breezy record of an adventurous journey; underneath the surface, a wise and insightful study of modern life, particularly in its transition from the Victorian to the early modern period. Bellocs prose glitters and crashes like ocean breakers.