A sonnet for my nephew Dan and his younger generation By climate change our coffee beans find themselves threatened – The heat’s too oppressive; there’s no drying season. Thank God for new technology, for our innovations – The engines… Read More ›
De la philosophie impure
Drawing, Conversation, Life
Le brouillon d’une version en français se trouve ci-dessous Most artists, before they have begun to draw—in a studio, with a model—have made any number of decisions. What materials they are going to work with and on; the scale… Read More ›
I had placed my hopes in aporia
Une version en français se trouve en-dessous. Toutes suggestions, rectifications et améliorations sont les bienvenues ! Touching the lame, the healer finds a warmth he had never known before. We write now knowing that we don’t know what to… Read More ›
On Lying
I know a young person who, like a lot of people, has learned from experience with his parents and at school that lying, frequently, routinely, works for him. It helps him to lead the kind of life he would like… Read More ›
Delusion
A woman in her forties told me that, from the time she was 8 years old, her father had been telling her that she was deluded. Even if this memory itself is a delusion, we can feel for this person… Read More ›
Free Will, Schmee Will
But of making many notes there is no end! {click for pdf} [0] It may be asked what the putative purpose of these notes is. A putative answer: to assert or recall that free will or a belief in free… Read More ›
Waist deep in a royal pool
At La Quinta Real (the royal manor), a Mexican resort hotel with a restorative view and not so restorative food, I was standing in a swimming pool with a Los Angeles portfolio manager (investment adviser). He asked me, convivially, what… Read More ›
