Tag Archives: Literature

2025 Guide To Intelligent Interraction in a Morally and Intellectually Challenged Society: Lessons #1 and 2

Posted on April 8, 2025 by randomyriad

Reading is a means of listening. Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shouting rush of the media. You … Continue reading →

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Art in Narration II: Tammy Grimes Reads Maurice Sendak Accompanied by Mozart

Posted on July 11, 2022 by randomyriad
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The Art of Narration I: Maurice Evans Reads A. A. Milne

Posted on June 15, 2022 by randomyriad
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A Sense of Possibility

Posted on January 22, 2019 by randomyriad

From Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities If there is a sense of reality, and no one will doubt that it has its justification for existing, then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility. Whoever … Continue reading →

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Ursula Le Guin, again?

Posted on January 31, 2018 by randomyriad

Giant Flying Cats! This woman really had some brilliant ideas. Although, it might be a bit frightening as well. But really this is a great book filled with some very interesting writing and fantastic storytelling, and big freakin’ cats that … Continue reading →

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