POETRY October 2013, augmented May 2017 It is quite some time now that the haiku has made its way across the Pacific, and many an American, adult and school child, has tried their hand at imitating the form and sensibility… Read More ›
With Afterwords
First Sentences
Reblogging “A Week of Reading” From Zeteo: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading (ZiR)] [Click for pdf of full text] [1] K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality While reading manuscripts… Read More ›
The future in about 900 words
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 April 2013 History will record that the cellphone and later mobile, but still external devices were above all precursors for an electronic device that was implanted under the skin, from where it sent signals to the brain… Read More ›
We floss, Lord
LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS Fall 2009 According to a book on the laws of the holiday Yom Kippur, the Talmud states, “Yom Kippur atones for those who repent and does not atone for those who do not repent”. To aid… Read More ›
The Social Life of Homo Sapiens (Part I?)
FROM SEQUENCE 4 November 2002 (N.B.: A story from a golden age, before cellphones became more ubiquitous than eyeglasses, and phone booths an endangered species.) It was a warm, sunny day, so during my lunch break I went to the… Read More ›
An End of Thinking
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 September 2012 Note: A revised version of this essay (and shorter besides!) was published in July 2013 in The Chronicle of Higher Education. For a pdf of this revised text click here. There is that moment,… Read More ›
On Playing and Missing (Now with an Afterword)
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 July 2012 Outside my apartment building are several basketball courts to which many men in their twenties come to play. Passing by, seeing the play, I have been struck by how often these men fail to get… Read More ›
