Letter To General Franco – José Antonio Primo de Rivera

LETTER TO GENERAL FRANCO Madrid, September 24th, 1934 Dear General, These moments I spend writing to you may well be the last chance we have of communicating with each other; my last chance to serve Spain by writing to you. This is why I do not hesitate to take the opportunity, though at first sight …

Donoso Cortes On Christian Civilization Versus Revolutionary Civilization

Excerpt from a letter to The Count de Montalembert from Donoso Cortes. May, 1849 l believe that Catholic civilization contains good unmixed with evil and that philosophic civilization contains evil unmixed with any good. Catholic civilization teaches that the nature of man is wounded and fallen, fallen and wounded in a radical manner in its essence …

Nothing Else

XLIII Two flowers in a letter The moon sinks into the far off hills. Dew drenches the bamboo grass. I wait. Crickets sing all night in the pine tree At midnight the temple bells ring. Wild geese fly overhead. Nothing else. -Marichiko LI Did you take me because you loved me? Did you take me …