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Looking Back
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What should I do? Look forward, I think not. Forward is the end. I think back and what that entails is recollection and reminiscence. memories and the sisters regret and ruefulness. The present is in disarray, for the dust has not settled, just the eye of the storm crossing self-geography. I associate to a dim […]
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The Razor’s Edge
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The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over: thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard. — KATHA UPANISHAD Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge was turned into a movie I saw decades ago, starring Gene Tierney, Ann Baxter, Tyrone Power and Herbert Marshall. It was not a memorable nor near […]
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Blood Libel and All That Jazz
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Impressions. Since Sarah Palin does not write her own books — nor credit the ghosts who do, I suppose her “Blood Libel” talk was composed by speechwriters. I also suppose that ignorance is usually surrounded by ignorance, the undereducated in league with the undereducated. Quite likely that team Palin had no idea about the loaded meaning […]
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This Mobius Strip of Ifs – Introduction
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This Mobius Strip of Ifs, a collection of essays by Mathias B. Freese, will be published later this year. Below is the book’s introduction written by Jane Holt Freese. We encourage reader comments and reactions. Happy New Year! Although we are passing ephemera, human lint on this planet in transit, it is a powerful […]