Hopefully someone cleaned up after him…
Funny how, in the evolution of language, some words don’t exactly lose their original meaning, but you would never use them in that context in modern prose. For example: “He…
Category: Reading
What is being read at the moment.
Futureland is now
Throughout the whole Imane Khelif Olympics boxing fake-Fox-News debate, Walter Mosley must have been jumping up and down and shouting, “I told you this was coming, motherfuckers!”: “Fera was so…
Every Election is a New Opportunity for Disappointment
Every election is a new opportunity to discover more unpleasant realities about our fellow citizens. And, if Günter Grass’s Crabwalk is any indication, we should have been prepared for recurring…
What Little Worlds We Build for Ourselves
“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we’re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what’s good and what isn’t, we draw maps of meanings…
Do you think you’re clever because you’re ironic?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is so good, it makes you mad. And of course, the narrator, an “eccentric recluse” in a remote Polish village, has…
Trump is … not new
“Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son—and what little charms the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on…
Attention to the Next Generation
This line from Evelyn Waugh, which he gave to the maundering Dr. Puttock, pretty much presaged what became an implicit but prevailing attitude guiding the next several decades: “Some people…
To all those “news avoiders”
“The water I drink, the food I eat, the clothes I wear, the bed I sleep on, are all determined by politics, good or bad. Politics is about power and…
Gotta find sources for the Homo Superior
Classic sci-fi novel Odd John reads like a proto-X-Men story because that’s what it is. Reputable sources credit author Olaf Stapledon with coining Homo superior, which is of course Magneto’s…
Bang, Bang, Lucifer’s Hammer comes down on my head
Writers, content creators, etc., all fetishcize the post-apocalyptic world since it is an opening for them to demonstrate their deep familiarity with the darkness at the heart of humanity. And…