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Third Book
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Working with the editors at Wheatmark we have finally reached the point after some 50 minor emendations and corrections and rephrasings and deletions and capitalizations and word choice that “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” is close to publication — perhaps the third week of January. In the meantime I am compiling lists of bloggers, personal […]
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Pastiche and that Mormon Thing
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Since my last blog I’ve been preoccupied with editing This Mobius Strip of Ifs, which is a mixture of essays and memoirs on education, Existentialism, writing, family, movies, death, living, separation, attachment and psychological abandonment as well as societal conditioning. Whew! After pretty well “scrubbing” the text, Jane and I still found about 50 corrections to […]
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Dear Mr. Brooks
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David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.I answered his request in his column, “The Life Report.” I am quoting from his opening remarks. “If you are over 70, I’d like to ask for a gift. I’d like you to write a brief report on your life so far, an evaluation of what […]
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Superannuated, My Ass
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According to my dictionary, it is to be obsolete, old-fashioned or outdated. None of this applies to me and yet it does. Because this particular culture says so. This culture has an implicit statement to make about age and purpose. There are manifest and subtle latent cut-offs for people. In fact we have perfected retirement in […]