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Music of the Spheres
In the beginning there was no beginning; no no; no was; no in; no thereโย nothing that was, was, and all that wasnโt,ย inconceivable, and there was no oneย ...
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in his role, an editor, the latter filled page after page of all...
Momento Mori
What do the living know about the dead? I was called upon to wonder when the well-meaning camp directorโs wife who knew parts of my family asked where I...
Other Plans: Journal of an Illness
I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of books and notes I was using for a major paper on Transcendentalism,...