And Now for Something Completely Different. . .
No, not the man with three buttocks, but rather Optical Illusions and fascinating illusions of motion via Matthias at Credo ut Intelligam.
Also at Credo ut Intelligam, Matthias has been contributing to Mr. Serafin's list of converts and adds one that I had not known of--Gustav Mahler. He also includes the novelist Gertrud von le Fort, author of Song at the Scaffold which may have influenced Bernanos in his construction of the libretto for Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites.