Tag: Mind Spider

For Danny Boy

"… It raced down the gossamer curtain of Its webbing, a nightmare Spider from beyond time and space, a Spider from beyond the fevered imaginings of whatever inmates…

Literary Symbolism

From a transcript of the Charlize Theron film "The Astronaut's Wife"— Schoolchildren — "Down came the rain, and washed the spider out, out came the sun, and dried…

Damnation Morning (continued)

Background— Why Me? and the Fritz Leiber story "Damnation Morning." The story, about the afterlife of a dead drunk, contains an intriguing dark lady. Related material — Search…

The Mind Spider*

On a conference at the New School for Social Research on Friday and Saturday, December 3rd and 4th, 2010— "This conference is part of the early stages in…

For the Mothers of Invention

Today is Commencement Day at MIT. A song by Joni— "Who needs the static?" Well might you ask, Joni. "The static boxes were an invention of Grandfather…."

A Better Story

Continued from May 8 (Feast of Saint Robert Heinlein) “Wells and trees were dedicated to saints.  But the offerings at many wells and trees were to something other…