Guido Mina di Sospiro's blog

After a very long initiation, I've come to the conclusion that initiation is overrated. The problem with any initiatic journey is initiation itself: Why, after all, is it necessary? Why are we never content in our own skin? (more)

As I was re-reading Lin Yutang's masterwork, I found so many passages that seem custom-made for the Dude that I thought it might be fun to explore the points of departure and arrival of both works, in tandem. To do that, I need to start from the not-so-distant premises that prompted Lin Yutang himself, back in 1937, to write his book. (more)

More than a movie The Big Lebowski is the kind of miracle that, more rarely than occasionally, slips through the cracks of the Hollywood machinery. The Coen Brothers gave us an offering that, back in 1998, left the majority of the critics perplexed. What on earth had they just watched? (more)