Archive for the 'Amusement' Category

Borders

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Have you ever flown on a plane and totally lost your bearings? Completely adrift, at sea without an oar. Waves of air carrying you places you’ve been or new one’s you forgotten you wanted to visit. Airports are like great time machines…if planes were fast enough, they really could travel through time I think. But anyway, they are amazing places. So many options, so much choice as to the next step…

The White Whale

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Melville in Moby-Dick speaks of reality outracing apprehension-just as the whale was too much for Ahab and his crew, it may be that out new century is too much for us to comprehend.
by E.L.Doctorow
In April of 2007 in Washington there was a joint meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American [...]