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The Waste of Spirit in an Expense of Shame
I see Steve Mitchelmore of This Space has called this blog a pile of shit. (I let his Twitter trackback through.) A few years back it probably would have stung me rather sharply, but now ...
Battle Lines
Reductionistic Framework Alert! I recently ran across an old essay by Lisp expert, venture capitalist, and general software guru Paul Graham. Graham is a very sharp person and his Lisp books are excellent, but he ...
William Ian Miller on Academic Aristocracy
(Or why graduate school may be counterproductive in preparing one for not entering the academy.) The story is an old one: the seller and his quest for money was believed to dissolve values, status, and ...
Ah Cheng on Writing
Great interview. Oriental Outlook: But we haven’t seen you write any commercial films. Ah Cheng: The directors haven’t asked me to. If they asked me, I’d do it. But would the movie sell? It’s not ...
History’s Bunk Pt DCVII
From the October 15 TLS. Michael Whitby quietly undermines the anthology he’s reviewing, Makers of Ancient Strategy, which purports to relate strategy then and now: Inevitably, some essays work better than others. In part this ...
Jose Donoso: The Garden Next Door
This is a late novel by Donoso, and it bears very little resemblance to anything else I’ve read by him. The Obscene Bird of Night and A House in the Country are two of the ...
Gene Wolfe Challenge Won!
I’ve been tardy in mentioning it, but a reader going by the sobriquet “Dave Tallman” has posted a very convincing explanation of Gene Wolfe’s cryptic Seven American Nights, and in doing so has answered the ...