The Higher Learning When I was in graduate school back in the 1990’s one of my professors, a brilliant but irascible man, opened his lecture with a remark which, paraphrasing from memory, went as follows: “Back in the early 20th century we had all of these groundbreaking discoveries in physics with only a few people… Continue reading Citizens of the Narcissus
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I, Sambo
First my story (sorry to bore you) The solitary reader supplies his own assessment of his relationship to those he meets in print. This can result in some unpleasant reckonings with reality, yet by the same token, the lover of literature may become confident enough about everything he has worked out in his mind as… Continue reading I, Sambo
Kevin Boothby Sailing 