“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
The manic days are becoming more maniacal. The only restraints on Trump’s actions are ordinary people going to the Street or voting. The Republican House and Senate have stepped away from their powers and become either cowed or rabid, and 6 members of the Supreme Court have become Trump’s collaborators. The powers in business and law are happy to pay their way into his favor. His personal wealth may have […]
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The Karelian Bear dog charged me. That sounds like a sentence found in a memoir by a survivor of Stalingrad. Let me show you the rest of that moment. Tina, the Karelian Bear dog, holding fast to Mr. Rabbit, charged me. That’s better. Tina was a big dog, close to 80 pounds, fast and young, and I had her in one of Lamancha’s enclosed pastures where I could take her off leash and […]
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At 73 the weight of regrets I carry is akin to a persistent extra 20 pounds I must support – not knee buckling but psychically insistent or maybe a gray cloud close to the ground just within my peripheral vision and always present. The regrets are personal and professional and include missed connections, mishandled opportunities, cowardly evasions, foolish remarks, mean actions, a misreading of my own character’s strengths while I […]
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“A screaming comes across the sky” is the first sentence of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, perhaps the greatest American novel about how the combination of modern science, 20th century fanaticism and the nation-state can wreak terrible damage on human beings. The “screaming” might refer to the V2 rocket, the screaming of its victims, air raid sirens, and the overall effects of such an air attack on London. It describes a moment […]
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