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Chambers and Antechambers
I have of late been thinking about public/private spheres and intermediary zones and was very pleased to come across these lines from “The Grand Dance”, a poem by Gwendolyn MacEwen: […] I am simply trying to track you down In … Continue reading
A favourite passage on what matters in what happens
Stein, Gertrude. Narration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935. Narrative concerns itself with what is happening all the time, history concerns itself with what happens from time to time. And that is perhaps what is the matter with history and … Continue reading
Another hand mapping
I have developed a mnemonic device to capture the important elements of time management for myself. On to the image of hand, I place “decision” at the opposable thumb and on each of the four fingers, the four traditional Ds … Continue reading
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The nature of sleep
I have developed a mnemonic device to capture the important elements of sleep for myself. On to the image of hand, I place “sleep” at the opposable thumb and on each of the four fingers I imagine its components: Rest … Continue reading
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Rest is not Rusting
James H. Austin in Zen-Brain Reflections gives pause to ponder. We consolidate memories mostly when we are either at rest or asleep, because these are quieter times when we are not processing any new external events. What evidence suggests that … Continue reading
Of Sounds and Languages
Torill Mortensen in a Wednesday, January 25, 2006 entry “Returning Home” on the blog thinking with my fingers writes I feel homesick for a language that touches me in a different manner, a longing towards harsh consonants, clear vowels and … Continue reading
a Skip and a Beat
In a piece collected in Close to the Knives David Wojnarowicz writes: Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head. In case any readers might want to take this aphoristic slice of quotation as a … Continue reading
Counting and recounting
In A Beautiful Mind, the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, one finds the following passage Margaret Wertheim, author of Pythagoras’ Trousers, a history of numerology, has pointed out that “people look to the order of numbers … Continue reading
Increments of incrimination
Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters translated by Olga Marx Zusya’s account of the “incomplete” angel-accuser that emerges from acts of sin The Accuser This is Rabbi Zusya’s comment on the pasage in the Sayings of the … Continue reading
Kline on future values
Peter Kline The Everyday Genius (1988) Relieved of the burden of drill, repetition and boredom, teachers will then be able to help us enter a new age of excitement about learning […] For when machines handle the presentation of information, … Continue reading