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Sturgeon’s Law
Various versions of this law appear in different places, including different final words… Ted Sturgeon's version was something like, "nine-tenths of everything is crap". Or crud, or inessential, or… well you pick. Having lately bought some books online, without seeing them first, I am feeling the sting of this tragically universal law. And if you…
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Feeling
Last night I watched Weekend, the 2011 film of an encounter between two guys who clearly need each other. Fairly heartbreaking, and very, very well done indeed – writing, acting, all of it. They go through the usual chaotic mistakes of a hasty encounter between strangers, then as they realize they want to spend more…
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Balance
Almost too faint, too evanescent, to write about – You know how it is, when you go through a day, or more, on what seems a different pattern: today was busy, one thing after another. Up early for the delivery man to pick up my passport renewal, rapidly reworking lists of compositions for an article…
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Issuing a retraction
I find myself uneasy with one of my previous blog posts. A few weeks ago, I was in New York. Frank Oteri wrote a blog entry on our conversation; he was upset that I had given up on composing. I defended myself… but the truth is, although I thought I was clear on my stance and…
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Biochem IIa
[PREREQUISITE: BIOCHEM I; or permission of instructor] I am noticing some other aspects of changing body chemistry, after the new HIV medications…. For several years, I have tended to get frequent bleeding, and clotting, in my sinuses. This has been worse since my 2009 stroke, and a subsequent three months of the dreadful medication Warfarin…
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The Manticore
So… during a time of relative quiet – home a lot, mulling around various work, making lists, and doing bits of it – last night a novel caught me: Agota Kristof's trilogy The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie; and caught me so definitely that I read it from about midnight to ten…
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