Searching for the ideas by which, to adapt Saint Paul:                                                          the world lives and moves and has its being.

Dawn on Mt Sinai, May 2002

This is the new website of Stephen Lapeyrouse. My earlier website, "American Reflections from Moscow", now is a part of my own history, and while I still bear and believe many of the ideas recorded therein (1994-~2007), it has become clear to me that I need to place that period of my life into a later, older perspective. Thus "American Reflections" are all still accessible, but I will  place on this new page thoughts which are not encompassed by the times and mind in which American Reflections were written, ie, that came later. From time to time I will perhaps add pieces here. I can be contacted at s_lapeyrouse@hotmail.com Moscow, June 2008

When I awoke that morning in Samarkand (May 1, 2007), I repeated aloud to myself the final words I was speaking in the last dream: "The world may not have meaning, but I am looking for it".

Zarathustra or Kant

The Tranquilized Ruins of Samarkand (June 2007; Moscow)

Jerusalem Journal (July-August 2007) -- extracts

Dostoyevsky -- Useless Literary Saint? (Feb. 19, 2008 Round-table presentation)

"Existential" in Danger (June 20, 2008; Moscow)

A Steppenwolf Over for Supper (June 21, 2008; Moscow)

Gnothi Seauton? (June 24, 2008; Moscow)

"White Christmas" in Benares? (December 31, 2008)

Rough Notes in Benares and Bodhgaya (Dec. 21, 2008-Jan 12, 2009

On "Auschwitz" -- Journal Extract, March 14, 2009, Old Arbat, Moscow

Barth vs Steiner (March 20, 2009, Moscow)       "...as if not only the age of prophecy is “closed”, but the road to Damascus also."

Aphoristic Phone Notes 2005-6

Aphoristic Phone Notes 2007

Aphoristic Phone Notes 2008

Aphoristic Phone Notes 2009