Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2004
Automation. The word elicits a predictable range of responses the moment it is uttered: sometimes favorable, often not. As an advocate of technology, often for nothing more than the sheer pleasure one encounters when confronted with problem solving, the purest submission of self to the creative urge, I am a kindred spirit [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2004
Monday morning can be unwelcome as mornings go –the work week is just beginning and the weekend never really arrived, or so it seemed. While circumstance has altered the once familiar regularity of my week, new patterns have put down roots where old habits directed my weekly routine. So I am able to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2004
Of all the skilled trades in the world I’d have to say plumbing is certaining among the most demanding. After several hours of arm-wrestling a kitchen pfaucet, I finally succeeded in overcoming the gauntlet of false starts, bruised knuckles, and muttered epithets. I’ve become accustomed to the nihlist’s point of view: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2004
After nearly thirty years of blissful seclusion our moderated rural lifestyle is facing the impending complexities implicit in the inexorable march of time and progress: development. It is fittingly apropos that our philosophical tenets are challenged when we allow ourselves to [...]
Posted in Observations on Aug 3rd, 2004
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless [...]
Scribbling
Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
Jess Walter
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