Interconnected

Books read November 2008, with date finished:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig (11th, r.) Changing Planes, Ursula K. Le Guin (17th, r.) Legends from the End of Time, Mic...

In contrast to the structures that I talked about the other day - the ones that Rothko and Markson set up halfway between your mind and what is ostensibly their art (but their art is actually these...

I like small plastic cows. I don't know why. I haven't owned any until today. For many years I have wanted a herd for my home, and 100 would do nicely. But there is no way I can justify spending th...

Books read October 2008, with date finished:
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1st) The Embedding, Ian Watson (7th) The Mightiest Machine, John Campbell (11th) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Phil...

Two days ago, Sunday, I joined the Tate as a member to get access to their Members Room to have somewhere to sit to read my book and have a coffee. The cheesecake there is pretty good. I was lookin...

Books read September 2008, with date finished:
The Very Slow Time Machine (1979), Ian Watson (7th) Three Men in a Boat (1889), Jerome K. Jerome (10th) The Non-Statistical Man (1965), Raymond F. Jo...

Volition
When I was young my family included Indigo, a golden retriever with his own towel and a wide smile. I would sit and watch him as he lay sprawled with his chin on one leg, staring into the...

Hyperlinks are blue which is the colour of sky, of potential. The @ symbol looks like a whirlpool, the mouth of a wormhole. A rabbit hole we fall through. This is the internet.

In the Sweat-Shop: I ran across this excerpt in Heim's biography of John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener. It's the first stanza "In the Sweat-Shop," from Leo Wiener's translation of the Yiddish poem...

Books read August 2008, with date finished:
Midnight's Children, Salmon Rushdie (9th, r.) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (14th, r.) The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (15th) Body of Glass, Marg...