Bill Exley has Spoken

William Arthur Exley [1939–2025]

LONDON, ONTARIO – 2025 was a dormant year for the Hermaneutics blog as I primarily focused on the compilation and sharpening up of a couple decades worth of my best essays and features to include in my next book. And at a more fundamental level than that, I’ve been slowly absorbing the implications of the recent death of my brother Bob. Of course, I’ve long understood that personal immortality was not in the cards for me or any of the people I love. But sibling death drives that conviction home to a whole new depth that demands some existential recalibration. In resuming the occasional posting of articles here, my intention going forward is to shun as best I can the more niggling distractions of politics and faddish sensation and try to plumb a deeper sounding of what American philosopher, Russell Kirk, called The Permanent Things. 

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