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  • The Blunted Sword of Damocles

    All is well. The biopsy was benign. I need to see the doctor next year for another scope. I am being watched, I suppose. Otto Rank, a disciple of Freud, and a kind of genius — bedmate of Anais Nin — tells a story of his youth. Planning to shoot himself during a bout with […]

  • Self-Observing As A Defense Against Terror — Or Feeling Damn Helpless

    On 7 July I had my second colonoscopy within 8 years. Supposedly I could have waited 10 years; however, the PA and I decided after a few words about the necessity of having it at all, to go ahead since I had initiated the doctor’s visit. I had no symptoms. I was being vigilant. After […]

  • ANNOUNCING A LITBLOG

    I have thought about reviewing specific books on these pages. Quite frankly, it is to encourage a give-and -take between readers or writers and this writer, who has expertise in some areas of the human soul. If you wish to have a book reviewed by me, I will give it the attention it needs. I […]

  • Trains=Holocaust And Other Observations, Railfans

    This blog will twist and turn because I have too much mentation floating about with regard to trains.  Several commentators have observed that the Holocaust is synonymous with the scheduling of trains during the Nazi era. Cattle cars shuffling along track for hundreds of miles and depositing Jews into death camps was a daily fact. […]