Category Archives: Other peoples words

Little Murders: A Movie Review Brought to You By the Death of Osama bin Laden

As I was writing my thoughts on the death of Osama bin Laden, I remembered a quote from a movie I saw when I was a teenager that I usually recall when people start talking about good guys and bad … Continue reading

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May 2011: Just Passing Through On the Highway from April to June

This last year is all muddled in my mind. I was reading and listening to so many books and working on writing in bits and scraps of time. I have had almost no time for anything else besides work. May … Continue reading

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February 2011: Implications of Projected Realities in the Middle of a Long Winter

when the inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and … Continue reading

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A Few More Pieces of January

“You think people are silly to believe in ghosts,” an old man had asked Fred Foley. “You should hear some of the things that ghosts believe in!” R. A. Lafferty, “Fourth Mansions” January 16 Journal Entry: What is writing? What … Continue reading

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Sometimes the Telling Makes the Tale

“There is entwined seven-tentacled lightning. It is fire-masses, it is sheets, it is arms. It is seven-colored writhing in the darkness, electric alive. It pulsates, it sends, it sparkles, it blinds! It explodes! It is seven murderous thunder-snakes striking in … Continue reading

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