Back at it
The strange thing about being back in a concert hall after all this time: it felt, really, as if no time had passed.
A “fluid plane”
I strongly suspect that J.W. Dunne’s work helped to inspire the MJT’s Geoffrey Sonnabend and his theory of obliscence.
Time travel
Alan Lightman discovers a great-grandfather’s pipe.
The Beloit Mindset List, 2018 edition
This year’s list looks to my eyes like a particularly tasteless and clueless array of hastily selected cultural fragments.
The Beloit Mindset List, 2017 edition
Better scotch those Stapleton Airport analogies, Professor Higginbotham! The kids today won’t “dig” them.
The Beloit Mindset List, again
In my lifetime, Bix Beiderbecke, Emily Dickinson, Juan Gris, and Fats Waller have always been dead. And the point is — what?
The Beloit Mindset List, 2011 edition
“ The 2011 edition of the Beloit Mindset List is out, and it manages to outdo the 2010 list in faulty perspective and tackiness.”
Re: the Beloit Mindset List
Really troubling assumptions about reality and young adults