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  • The Blur

    Again, another day seeing the great Blur. And what might that be? The Blur, as I define it, is the passing not only of the natural world before our eyes — we rarely look up, rarely look down — but the peopled stream we find ourselves in. Day after day we go about our “business” blind to […]

  • Things Kazantzakis

    In The i Tetralogy I use a quotation from Kazantzakis’ Report to Greco in at least two places. It reads: “Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!” It all comes to rest in that sterling quotation mark. It is one of three quotations that Kazantzakis uses in the first pages of his extraordinary […]

  • I Am Curious

    I am sitting here as the computer went dead and I lost the entire blog. You can’t do that with a typewriter or pen and pencil. Aggravating and annoying, the brave new world we live in, with the minds and bodies of our ancestors of the Stone Age all wrapped up in technology, “I am […]

  • What is the name of that wiry, nutty creature that fawned over Jabba the Hutt?

    Having read my blogs of late,  Jane has decided to keep me honest; she has the brainpower and dry wit to see through cant. And she knows when I am being preposterous,  pompous as well as grandiose. That’s what I need, a built-in critic! So as she reads these blogs she cuts through the layers […]