Monday, August 29, 2011

John Fowles: from Wormholes

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I'm slowly working my way through John Fowles' collection of personal essays, literary criticism, memoirs, and other writings. The ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Weather Report

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Tucson, Arizona 3:26 MST Temperature: 108 F Humidity: 14% Heat Index: 105 F Vendor of bright fans Carryin...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Michel de Montaigne: on Montaigne

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The following quotation is from Montaigne's Introduction to the first edition of his Essays . "To the Reader" This is ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Serendipity

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One of the poet's favorite or at least one of the most frequent themes is death. I think Emily Dickinson wrote several hundred poems on...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Ray Bradbury: August 22, 1920,

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Spoiler Warning: I will discuss significant plot elements and events. Here are three short tales by Ray Bradbury, whose birthday w...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Gold Coast

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Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast (TGC) is one of the three novels in what was first called "The Orange County" trilogy...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Joseph Wood Krutch: more from Baja California

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Once again Joseph Wood Krutch opposes the more traditional attitude and, I must admit, makes some interesting points while doing so. To...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Something to think about:

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1.3 Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole work, we ...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XLV

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Quatrain XLV is one of those rare quatrains that disappear after the first edition. So far, I think only one other quatrain was dropped co...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Something to think about:

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The mass of people believe their judgements to be their own. They get very offended when it is suggested that they have actually received ...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Otomo no Yakamochi (718?--785 AD): a lament

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I think I've said this before, but just in case I haven't, I'm always surprised as I read poems and stories from various culture...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

Loren Eiseley: from The Immense Journey

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One of Loren Eiseley's recurring themes is that evolution has not stopped with us. Some evolutionists appear to resemble creationists...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Combination Plate 19: An Announcement

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To those, if any, who have been patiently awaiting me to finish Combination Plate 19, my apologies. I hadn't realized that it has been...

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XLIV

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While it may not look like it, Quatrain XLIV is the sixth and final quatrain in a series that refers to the grape or to wine. This may no...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Serendipity: Nietzsche

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Quotations taken from Human, All-Too-Human 83 The sleep of virtue. When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. I guess a little ...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Kenko: Essays in Idleness

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Kenko (approx. 1283-1350) is a Japanese Buddhist priest. Kenko was a low-ranking member of the imperial court, but for some unknown reas...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Serendipity: John Fowles, Wormholes

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I have never really wanted to be a novelist. For me the word carries a load of bad connotations--like author and literature and reviewe...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Something to think about

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3 That we pursue something passionately does not always mean that we really want it or have a special aptitude for it. Often, the thing we ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Joseph Wood Krutch: Baja California

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Joseph Wood Krutch's Baja California and the Geography of Hope is a very unusual book, in that it's hard to explain just what it i...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Edgar Allan Poe: "The Black Cat"

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"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to e...
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