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A Discourse Upon Age Cohorts
You think that you are virtuousbecause of where you were born,or when you were born?You even think that you are virtuousbecause of how you were born,but every one is born in much the same way,and if they make it that farthen they all get older until they die,you know about that, it’s the passage of Continue reading
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Vocab 108 Part 24: X
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128 108, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 108 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary Continue reading
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Things I enjoy, in no particular order
To be posted as a necessary counterweight to that other post: * “Little did they know,” one of the most evocative stock phrases in the English language. * A fat stack of pancakes on a Saturday morning. * Intricate and detailed set design, whether it be for films, theater, dioramas, theme parks, or whatever. * Continue reading
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Things that annoy me, in no particular order
(For a cheerier list, follow this link) To be posted when I’ve gotten tired of adding to the list: * When people, in the context of creative arts, use the term “rip-off” for anything other than one artist plundering a different artist’s work for ideas and presenting every original creative element as their own work. Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 23: W
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an Continue reading
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Two Words About a Lady
The Way She Walks She hands her clothes downand gathers new clothes, looking one way and then another everyyear, growing softer,glowing brighter, desiringand desired, wrapped tight in a fair skirt of delight.Before her face, the wildstreets are glittering, windows open to glimpse a brass sun across her breaststhat rises with her breath,yet neither seems to Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 22: V
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an Continue reading
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The Immorality of the Lynch Mob
One of the worst habits of intellectual ages gone by is the tendency to make sweeping generalizations about the nature or character of entire cultures, societies, nations, or other abstract assemblages of of people. I say “ages gone by,” but I really ought to admit that this is a bad habit of all ages, and Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 21: U
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an Continue reading
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I’m only going to write a little post this week
You see, a lot of things are running around in my mind. I’ve got to finish this revision of my novel, which is hard enough to do without an attention-starved parrot trying to hide inside my desk when he thinks I’m not looking. I’ve let myself let that slide too many times because I decided Continue reading
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