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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

John Barth and the Aftermath

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I've long known that John Barth is my favorite novelist. I thought the Sot-weed Factor to be the actual great American novel when I rea...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Our Usage of Free Speech is as Dangerous as Our Gun Laws

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It feels inevitable now. The end is near.  Oh, did you think I was talking about the world? No, it is my personal demise which feels so near...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

chatGPT and Natural Intelligence

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Yes, fearless reader, you are already familiar with my observation that human understanding ended with the bomb. We were so very impressed w...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Impression of Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

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Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Some novelists seem to write out of a kind of desperation. Life disappoints, feel...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Goodreads Impression of Cormac McCarthy The Passenger

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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars The novel, she dead. All the same tropes, when you're (you, the author are) ...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

A Cipher In the Fullness of Immature Time

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There is, of course, no fullness of time, unless you wish to count eternity somehow, and then you can't be in time. Time as we live it i...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

An Email to Virginia Heffernan

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Dear Virginia (I'm old school that way) I can't find your contact information no way no how, which is, I presume, the way you want i...