Something about the state of things now bringing a sort of mortality to nature as we know it by the disruption of natural systems. Nature used to be our place of refuge, of learning cyclicality and finding a needed corollary of the resilience we need spiritually. I got this strongly as a 13 year-old coming…
Read moreBelated
“Every book I read is one that I now can’t write,” he fumed.
Read moreBehind on their Reading
What if Plato et al were to be brought back to life? First off, they’d have some reading up to do.
Read morestory I believe
the story I believeis like how much landdoes a man needyou start out anxiousand greedy to know itreciting breathlessto persuade othersbut it outpaces youand the sun is settingon your attemptit’s precious, this storyand it outpaces youforever beautiful
Read moretruth to be told
I’m beginning to think everything, but everything, may be true.
Read moreCrying
He criesThat’s so sweetBut every night?I just want the sexHold the sauce
Read moredangling cause, dramatic irony, dramatic tension, telegraphing
As I think about these elements, in relation to reading War & Peace, and how everything was prepared and dramatic tension finally introduced and ramped up with the mention of Count Bezhukov’s will, I see how in fact simple it can be. I’ve known all this by instinct, yet never in such stark terms. But…
Read moreMovie: The Queen
(Cobble Hill Cinema ~11/15/06) Was admiring of the simplicity of it, although maybe it fell short of the greatest insights as a result. Mesmerized by performance of actor who played Blair. Helen Mirren worked at something minimal that worked well. The queen’s husband’s part was played a bit too over the top and obvious, and…
Read moreA Defense of Art, of sorts…
I’m the reason the world is worth preserving! he snorted.
Read moreAdaptability
The thing about our being so adaptable. We could be born into any world, no matter how fantastic, and would take it for granted. This might explain the persistence of culture as nurture, the staying power of so many elaborate beliefs. Born and reared by them we know no better, yet they become us, they…
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