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American Tempest: Overture
"If a theatre were to take on the task of doing the entire work of Shakespeare, out of an absolute conviction that this is the greatest school of life that they know, that group would be an astonishing group in human terms." - Peter Brook
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Time Machine Argot: Sexing the Cube
I'm interested in outcomes. Generate a cubic environment. To the extent to which your space mirrors the world -- that is, to the extent to which you will avoid the autodidact's embarrassment -- it will conform to the right-hand rule along with other fundamental principles. This is why, for example, your cube should resemble a die even when rolled. ( Read more... ) -
Time Machine: Argot! (Prelude & Fugiens)
The dew [ros] keeps flowing this year, a good three weeks after the calendrical equinox should otherwise have rung the bell on the season. Naturally, I find this not only interesting but very funny. Weather is water's politics.
At one point memory training was as widespread
as piano lessons were recently -- or HTML today.
ON ONE QUESTION, people ( Read more... ) -
Birds for the Mind
THERE WAS ONCE an old swan who, it is said, was "ever speaking of morality, but otherwise in his conduct." He would instruct the birds and they would fish in the sea for food to repay his teaching. When they were gone, their eggs disappeared, first one and then another and so on. One bird who noticed that stayed behind, only to discover that the ( Read more... ) -
Anyhow Stories, Moral & Otherwise
Canon and counter-canon. Early on, the work of Hans Christian Andersen inspired much the same urge to panic in me that department store mannequins did. Later on, of course, my baby sister and I could spend a happy Saturday morning laughing it up at the expense of a campy early '70s TV version of "The Little Match Girl," and who wouldn’t enjoy the ( Read more... )
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