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Labels, Joanna Russ, and What Lies Beneath
“Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can’t.” - Joanna Russ Today would have been the 76th birthday of Joanna Russ, one of the early female...
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Anthony Burgess on Violence, Creation, and Destruction
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. - Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was perhaps...
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Lonesome Animals – John Steinbeck
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say – and to feel – “Yes, that’s the way it is, or at...
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Meaning Misuses of Dr. Seuss’
“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.” - Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel It’s a balancing act for...
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Impossible Things
It is a good practice for anyone to believe in a few impossible things, much as Carroll’s Alice prescribed to. If you can fit them in before breakfast, so much the better. This is true for anyone,...
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Mysteries and Answers from Ken Kesey
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer – they...
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Douglas Adams Thought of it First
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry “I could have thought of that” is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and...
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Einstein Slaying the Dragons
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons...
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Read Out Rant
I always knew I would be a writer, but finding my niche for public service has been a trickier task. Some people I’ve known seem to have had their causes defined for (or thrust upon) them much as...
View ArticleRead Out Rant Follow Up #1: About Aaron Swartz
Following up on yesterday’s rant… May 25 is Towel Day, celebrating “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. It’s a book that has been challenged for removal from libraries (shorthand,...
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I took a couple of weeks off from mostly everything to focus on writing a sequel. In chatting with a friend about it last night, the word “possession” came up. I acknowledged that the experience could...
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The Art of Lying and Kurt Vonnegut
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays...
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Labels, Joanna Russ, and What Lies Beneath
“Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can’t.” - Joanna Russ Today would have been the 76th birthday of Joanna Russ, one of the early female...
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