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  • Land And Marbles

    It was an aimless game with a competitive edge to it, much like the incessant, monotonous drive of Monopoly played for long Saturday afternoons. It whiled away the time and required some finesse with a pocketknife; we all carried them in the 50s, as much a symbol of maturity as of masculinity, symbolic of our […]

  • A Drop More, Please

    On the one hand, if we are somewhat aware, up and running, the corner cut man having restored some life in us, we struggle to put off being conditioned. While we struggle, as we haltingly catch our breath, we walk into some awareness, some sense of self that happily creates doubt and dissonance in us so […]

  • A Long Draft of Lemmonade

    To be free to agonize is better to me than not to be free, enjoying all the conditional glut a market economy can afford. Flick on the tube, stand 20 paces away, fine tune your mind and what do you behold: pollution. I was in Target the other night browsing for a sunshade to ward […]

  • Sweet Review And Spiffy Interview

    I’ve had no chance to post since I was visited by my son; however,while he was here a very fine review of Down to a Sunless Sea came in from Ascent Aspirations, David Fraser, editor. See: http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/downtoasunlesssea.htm. And Edwin Turner at Biblioklept interviewed me via emails. See http://biblioklept.org/2008/05/09/the-biblioklept-interview-mathias-freese/ The more significant news is that I placed […]