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A vintage-style illustrated book cover for Dino Buzzati’s Collapse of the Baliverna. Beneath the author’s name and title, a vast, cracked fortress rises from a rocky mountain ridge under dark, wind-swept clouds. A solitary cloaked figure approaches along a narrow path in the foreground, while a deep valley and scattered buildings recede into the distance. The image uses muted cream, brown, gray, and blue tones, with dense engraved linework and a worn, old-book texture.

A vintage-style illustrated book cover for Dino Buzzati’s Collapse of the Baliverna. Beneath the author’s name and title, a vast, cracked fortress rises from a rocky mountain ridge under dark, wind-swept clouds. A solitary cloaked figure approaches along a narrow path in the foreground, while a deep valley and scattered buildings recede into the distance. The image uses muted cream, brown, gray, and blue tones, with dense engraved linework and a worn, old-book texture.

Inherited Worlds: Dino Buzzati and “The Collapse of the Baliverna”

Buzzati's Baliverna becomes much more disturbing if the Baliverna represents a world after maintenance has ceased but before collapse has become visible.

3 days ago8 min read

Illustrated cover image for a movie review of the 1977 film Rollercoaster: a middle-aged man holding a radio stands before a towering wooden roller coaster, inspecting the track beneath a calm sky.

Illustrated cover image for a movie review of the 1977 film Rollercoaster: a middle-aged man holding a radio stands before a towering wooden roller coaster, inspecting the track beneath a calm sky.

The Last Adults: Rescuing Rollercoaster (1977), A Critical Film Analysis

Rollercoaster (1977) was never a disaster movie. This critical film analysis exposes a moral and psychological thriller about the maintenance of civilization—about the fragile moral labor required to keep complex systems from collapsing. Mis-marketed, misunderstood, and quietly discarded, the film diagnosed a cultural shift that has only accelerated since: the substitution of spectacle for seriousness, and entertainment for adulthood.

Jan 321 min read

Real Morality: Coherence matters more than origin.

Because insight is insight—and anything else is ad hominem.

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