Foreword & Contents
About the Writings
About the Writer
Eclectic Essays ART FAMILY FICTION HISTORY IDEAS LANGUAGE LIFE

Jan 15
Jan 15 The Story

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Languge

Let me tell you a story.

Jan 8
Jan 8 How Sophisticated

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Languge

Sophia, Sophist, Sophisticate. Related words, with strained relations.

Jan 6
Jan 6 The Redemption of Benny Gantz

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Fiction

Everybody thought Benny Gantz was a Jew. Ya’ know, ‘cause of the name.

Jan 1
Jan 1 The Great Questions

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Ideas

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Dec 25
Dec 25 What's Left?

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Ideas

Only a finite number of ideas are right. All else is what’s left.

Dec 18
Dec 18 Dream On Little Man

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Ideas

In Book 21 of the Iliad, Homer sings to us of the battle between noble Achilles and the mighty river Xanthus.

Dec 11
Dec 11 Quantum Leaps

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Ideas

Sometimes a sub-atomic particle will suddenly gain or lose a quantum. When this happens, it is called a quantum leap.

Dec 4
Dec 4 In Praise of Generalities, Hypocrisy and Vicarious Experience

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Ideas

In general, most folks think generalities aren’t reliable, hypocrisy is deplorable and vicarious experience is never as good as hands-on experience.

Nov 27
Nov 27 What Fresh Horror is This?

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Life

That’s what Dorthey Parker said every time she answered the doorbell to her apartment.

Nov 13
Nov 13 It's All About the Money

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Ideas

No, it’s not. If it was all about the money, life would make more sense.

Nov 6
Nov 6 Isadora, Bessie, and Maudine

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Life

In the early years of the 20th century a singularly flamboyant young lady named Isadora Duncan danced her way to fame, and some fortune, across America, Europe, and Russia.

Nov 1
Nov 1 What's the Use

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Ideas

Of anything, really?

Oct 31
Oct 31 Beauty

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Ideas

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” So say many. It’s not true.

Oct 30
Oct 30 The Schedule

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Ideas

8:00 A.M: I say today’s first prayer, then prepare a small breakfast for myself and Lady Tallahassee, and another day begins - on schedule.

Oct 16
Oct 16 Certain Ambiguity

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Ideas