This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of it — it is so wasteful…We should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed.
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In the context of Wallace’s suicide just 12 years later.
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Vern challenged me on Facebook to show 10 books over 10 days that have influenced me. I respectfully decline to turn over this material to Facebook. I’m also going to ignore the part about no explanations. But don’t worry, they’re brief.
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What does it take to be a legendary polymath? Study, observe, learn stuff.
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Three books, or series of books, that have been occupying me for a while.
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Eric Scholosser’s Command and Control tells of a system out-of-control, that doesn’t necessarily obey commands.
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One of mine, too. Nicely done mini-review of just one sentence of Cormac McCarthy.
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Forward. Inside-out. Outside-in. It’s worth re-reading either way to solve the puzzle of interconnectedness. .
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Something unusual happens at the end of Stephen King’s new novel. Something new, for him, that you don’t find in his previous books. Sweetness. Romance. Lyricism.
1 CommentOr so they said. Could my favorite author, Cormac McCarthy, really have written these restaurant reviews? Of course not, it says so right on the tin. Still as parody they are hilarious. And so the man defied the villagers and ate the taco. In defiance of the will of those people but also in defiance…
Leave a CommentArchie Brown, emeritus professor at Oxford, has put out a lively and informative book that traces the communist movement from its intellectual origins in the Renaissance through the present day. If you were politically aware of the world in the late ’80s, you’ll remember it as a time of incredible sweeping change around the world.…
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