Crossing the divide: A website about Literature, Art & Philosophy by Venkat Ramanan

Robert Delauney, Eiffel Tower (1911) (Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons) There are numerous ways in which the fourth wall can be transgressed. Then what is the role of the fourth wall as an inviolable boundary between fiction and reality? Secondly, is evidence of such infringements today a sign that society is becoming more self-reflexive in a quest to redefine the borders between fiction and the “real” world?                                                                                                             My new essay published in the July 2021 issue of Epoche Magazine

How do you convince someone to take the coronavirus vaccine? This essay argues that we can do so by presenting to them a reasoned argument from theology, namely, Pascal's wager. See essay at  https://bluelabyrinths.com/2021/04/25/can-pascals-rationality-rescue-the-pandemic-vaccine/ The Triumph of Death (1532) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons