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Friday, October 20, 2023

Joe Gould and Me

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Why me? There is a fascinating interplay among Joe Gould, his chronicler Joe Mitchell, and Jill Lepore, whose own read on history feels brig...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Suttree

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Suttree by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars This prefigures everything, I suppose. The Road. That the entirety of Western Civ lead...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Yet Another Unpublished Goodreads Review of Nicholas Humphrey *Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness*

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Hey, I just read that the guy who invented the AR-15 was able to do so because he was unbound by the dogmas of the engineers. I tinker with ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Troubleshooting Reality; A Very Preliminary Review of *Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness* by way of *A General Theory of Love*

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I'm a trouble-shooter. I've proven myself quite good at troubleshooting things that I don't necessarily know as much about as ot...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

My Poor Bookshelves - an ode to Annie Dillard - an Apology

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Oppenheimer's quote - I am become death - is become really well-known now. And I suppose we all know how he was crowded out by the burge...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

A Thought Experiment for Indi

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Let's assume for the moment that there is God. Not a god, as I like to say, but primordial Mind which must, by my read, coexist with phy...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

The Teeth Rot in Life, Endure in Death

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Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don't understand most of the reviews here. This book is hardly 'ab...