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The Ideas “We tell ourselves stories in order to live…. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we…
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy “‘Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?’” — Philip K. Dick “She began throwing the coins.“…
In the Dreamtime the Point Was Ten From Play It As It Lays, the paperback edition of 1990 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) — Page 170: …
The above logo is from the I Ching Resources website. Hexagram 10 Treading (Conduct) Two Commentaries: 1. The standard Princeton University Press Wilhelm/Baynes text 2. An idiosyncratic interpretation…
The Ring of Gyges 10:31:32 AM ET Commentary by Richard Wilhelm on I Ching Hexagram 32: "Duration is… not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression….
Charm At Decision Time, Colleges Lay On Charm– – Today’s New York Times Also in today’s Times: “‘Lestat,’ the maiden Broadway production of Warner Brothers Theater Ventures, is…
Chorus from The Rock Author Joan Didion is 70 today. On Didion’s late husband, John Gregory Dunne: “His 1989 memoir Harp includes Dunne’s early years in Hartford and…
From The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Juliana said, “Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?”…
Inner Truth and Outer Style Inner Truth: Outer Style: Joan Didion “Everything I learned, I learned at Vogue.” — Joan Didion, Nov. 2001 interview with Amy Spindler. Spindler…
Number 61 For Joan Didion on her birthday From “On Keeping a Notebook” (1966) in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: How it felt to me: that is getting closer to…