Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground I found that I had posted several entries about The Notes from Underground in association wi...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Robert Grudin: the mind's blind spot

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III.3 In the same way that our eyes have blind spots in space, our minds have blind spots in time;  areas of time which we habitually or c...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain XXXVI

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This is another quatrain that first appeared in the Second Edition.  FitzGerald then included it in the following three editions. Second ...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Hermann Hesse: Demian

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Hermann Hesse Demian trans.  Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck Bantam Books edition   In an earlier post, Baltasar Gracian suggested t...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Gregory Benford: the last of the Anomalies

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These are the last stories from Greg Benford's latest collection of short stories,  Anomalies. "Gravity's Whispers" A...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: Appearances

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No. 130 Do, and exhibit your doing.  Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem: to have worth, and to know how to show ...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015

New Year Haiku

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I'm stealing this idea from Stephen Penz, over at First Known When Lost .  I hope you don't mind, Stephen.   As Stephen pointed out,...
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Monday, December 29, 2014

Gregory Benford: Still more from Anomalies

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More stories from Gregory Benford's latest short story collection: Anomalies Comes the Evolution" The characters talk, endles...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Thomas Hardy: "A Nightmare, And The Next Thing

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A Nightmare, And The Next Thing On this decline of  Christmas Day The empty street is fogg4ed and blurred: The house-fronts all seem bac...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Wallace Stevens: The Snow Man

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             The Snow Man One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain XXVIII

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Second Edition: Quatrain XXVIII Another Voice, when I am sleeping, cries, "The Flower should open with the Morning skies."  ...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind

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No. 10 "The dislocation involved in switching from one passion to another--even its very opposite--is less than one wold expect.  Th...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Another Dream?

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From Life is a Dream We live, while we see the sun, Where life and dreams are as one; And living has taught me this, Man dreams the li...
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Gregory Benford: more from Anomalies

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Here are several more stories from Greg Benford's latest short story collection:  Anomalies "Twenty-Two Centimeters" Th...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Octavio Paz: some short poems

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Here My steps along this street resound              in another street in which               I hear my steps passing along this str...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

My Dinner With Andre, a film

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My Dinner with Andre Last year I watched a remarkable film, The Man from Earth, an SF film without BEMs, spaceships, ray guns, space batt...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: 2nd Edition, Quatrain XX

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Second Edition:  Quatrain XX The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew--    I saw th...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

John Banister Tabb: "Evolution"--a short poem

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Evolution Out of the dark, a shadow,   Then, a spark; Out of the cloud a silence,   Then, a lark; Out of the heart a rapture,   Then,...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Carl Sagan: A Pale Blue Dot

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  PALE BLUE DOT: A VISION OF THE HUMAN FUTURE IN SPACE:  CARL SAGAN    “Look again at that dot. That's here. That...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Loren Eiseley: "Fly Falcon"

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Fly Falcon All of the falcon kind, the hard travelling                                  talon-clawed ones that for so many years I have...
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