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Vril Chick

Continues. A Brainstorm  for Jo Lyxe : Swastika logo of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind  at the University of California, San Diego. Soundtrack:  Under the Iron Sky .

She Was a Hunter, Not a Witch

( Iron Cross, continued ) "… and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Desk Set

For a former defender of the Fulda Gap who reportedly died on July 1, 2013— and two quotations: "Is it so hard a thing to see…?" "Die Liebe…

Backward

(Continued) For Brad Leithauser, some of whose remarks on "Reading Poems Backward" were quoted here on July 13— A brief review of the life of artist Marc Simont,…

Art Saint

Marc Simont, Classic Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 97 Simont reportedly died on Saturday, July 13, 2013. See this journal on that date and Simont's cover illustration for…

Child Buyers

The title refers to a classic 1960 novel by John Hersey. “How do you  get young people excited about space?” — Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012 (Italics added.) (See previous four posts.)…

Space Itself

"How do you get young people excited about space? How do you get them interested not just in watching movies about space, or in playing video games set…

Tag (Part II)

(Continued from yesterday evening) Madeleine L'Engle in The Irrational Season (1977), Chapter 9: "After A Wrinkle in Time  was finally published, it was pointed out to me that the villain, a…

Ay Que Bonito

(Continued) From Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell — " 'With an engineer to help me,' said Dora, 'I can do anything.'  And indeed as she stood there in the…

Tag

Some recent posts have been added to the Root Circle saga. Update of 12:13 AM July 16, 2013: Click the above image for further details. This "every other term"…