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For Emma, after Davos

See the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.

Now We Are Six (continued)

Wikipedia on a 1953 novel by Theodore Sturgeon: "The novel concerns the coming together of six extraordinary people with strange powers…." Review of the novel by Ted Gioia at Conceptual…

Complex Symplectic Fantasy

"We are not isolated free chosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform…

The Consolations of Form

"In the garden of Adding,   Live Even and Odd…." – The Midrash Jazz Quartet     in the novel City of God     by E. L. Doctorow (2000)…

City Kid

Dryness*

* See the previous post's link Against Dryness.

A Shot at Redemption

(Continued.) “I need a photo opportunity,  I want a shot at redemption. Don’t want to end up a cartoon  in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon Photo opportunity for the late…

John Bayley

High Concept:

The Dark Fields  Meet  The Big Seal . Recall the punchline of Tuesday afternoon's post on the 2012 film "Travelling Salesman" — "What am I, the farmer's daughter?" For background from…

State of the NOW:

The Malfunctioning TARDIS continues… The New York Times  this evening claims that this is a photo from the Year of Our Lord 1970: It clearly is not.  [See…