Walpurgisnacht Beltane Moon As our northern European friends threw the wood on the bonfires and stripped off their clothes, I planted 100 green onions, 6 […]
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Conference World
Spring Beltane Moon An odd afternoon. Drove into Minneapolis, walked a good ways through a skyway connecting the Leamington ramp to the Minneapolis Convention Center, […]
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Spring Beltane Moon There is, too, always a let down after finishing a first draft. All that time, writing novels for most of us takes at […]
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Spring Beltane Moon Still reading Missing, catching up to the end, so I can write it. That’s an amazing aspect of writing a novel. I can read what I’ve written […]
Read the rest of this entry »“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no […]
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Spring Beltane Moon The legislature lurches toward adjournment, up ending decades of environmental legislation as it goes, e.g. permitting relaxation, a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Spring Beltane Moon This am read the last chunk of Missing, getting back into the flow. I’ll start writing tomorrow morning. Close. Lunch with Stefan today. […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Humanities. Yeah.
Spring Beltane Moon “Reminding us that “professor” means someone professing a faith, Delbanco exhorts us to keep the etymology alive: “Surely this meaning is one to which […]
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See the Heads?
Spring Beltane Moon Coming north on Highway 10 (or east, I can never figure it out and I’ve lived up here 18 years) just before the […]
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