It’s an interesting coincidence this week that I wrote you some comments on postmodernism, in which the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle prominently features, and then we read (what most would consider an indisputably postmodern work) Reluctant Gravities, which involves the same phenomena.
… Read the restReluctant Gravities, by Rosemarie Waldrop. Read More »
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
– Isaac Asimov
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is outside the nearest window?
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… Read the rest– TODAY – is the Misa de Aguinaldo.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Lots of celebrities.
– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
globeandmail.com: Rare dolphin extinct, researcher says.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Who have you not envied this week?
So Phase 1 of Connor’s MFA program has just been concluded. It consisted of the first three of my four semesters. During this time I took 4 credits each semester from a Writing Workshop and a Literature Seminar.
The first semester, I took Helen Schulman’s workshop, and Jeffery Renard Allen’s literature seminar, Shadow Narration.
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Bear in mind that this is raw, unfiltered data. The effect of the computer, for example, is huge, and who knew about bottled water in 1980?
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– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Sitting Bull and Freeman Dyson.
– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Paraguay.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
But how do you really feel about Disco?
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I think this syllabus is unreasonably biased toward people with the last name Palmer.
Logicalogics was a fun way to go out. It strikingly reminded me of the sort of work I saw working on my high school’s literary magazine.
… Read the restLogicalogics, by Ronald Palmer. Read More »
I am happy to announce that I’ve evidently survived the semester.
– DECEMBER – is jingle bells month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Nostrodamus, Tycho Brahe, Patty Duke. And Lindsay!
– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Flashlight Museum.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Now, what’s the longest you’ve ever slept, uninterrupted?
Cannot post today. The semester is out to destroy. And will be over tonight. Then I will sleep. Sweet sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s the longest you ever stayed awake?
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