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Category Archives: Fiction
Why You Should Know Who William T. Vollmann Is, and Go Out and Read Him Immediately
I am obsessed with William T. Vollmann, an author and all around supremely interesting person. Many of you will never have heard about this man. I certainly had not, until roughly four years ago. I could probably actually pinpoint the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, Fiction, History, Mental Health, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged william t. vollmann
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Cormac McCarthy
I have lots I want to post about…but no time to really flesh it all out. So instead, here’s an interview the NYTimes did with Cormac McCarthy, the author of All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, The Road, No Country … Continue reading
First Person Survival Accounts
Oh my goodness! I didn’t write anything during all of October? Oh my. Well, to those who were expecting a post in October, I apologize. I guess I’ve just been busy (one conference in Europe and one convention in Vancouver, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Fiction, History, Politics, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged a tale of two cities, anne frank, Cambodia, charles dickens, first they killed my father, genocide, haruki murakami, iris chang, jilenek, Khmer Rouge, loung ung, nazi germany, noble prize, one day in the life of ivan denisovich, Pol Pot, primo levi, surviving auschwitz, the kolyma tales, the periodic table, the piano teacher, the rape of nanking, underground, varlam shalamov, WWII
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Zoophilia: a Short Story by Hunter S. Thompson…and an Essay by Peter Singer
Hunter S. Thompson, almost a decade ago, published a book of short stories titled Screwjack. It’s very short, containing only three stories, the last of which shares the same title as the collection. For some reason, I’ve always loved that … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Fiction, History, Mental Health, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged Bestiality, dekers, freud, heavy petting, hunter s. thompson, kinsey, Peter Singer, screwjack, Sex, short story, Zoophilia
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Urine!: Turns Out It’s REALLY Interesting
I was talking to some friends about Blood Meridian, a book by Cormac McCarthy which I consider to be one of the best books I’ve ever read, and I was talking about a scene in which the Judge makes gunpowder out … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, History, Science
Tagged agriculture, alchemy, blood meridian, brand, chemistry, cleaning, cormac mccarthy, fertilizer, gunpowder, phosphorous, romans, saltpeter, soap, survival, sustainability, sweden, urine
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Suicide
I was reading an article by Zadie Smith (author of White Teeth) in Harper’s. It was a review of two books: Edouard Leve’s Suicide and Peter Stamm’s Seven Years. I had never heard of either author, but Smith’s description of Leve’s Suicide convinced … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, Fiction, Mental Health, Philosophy, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged Autoportrait, Edouard Leve, Harper's, Leve, Paris Review, Pornographie, Pornography, Rugby, Suicide, Zadie Smith
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This is Water – David Foster Wallace
I am currently in the process of reading David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus Infinite Jest. As I near the half way point, I stumbled across a line that immediately made me think of a commencement address that Wallace gave, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, Fiction, Mental Health, Philosophy
Tagged commencement, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, This is Water
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Asteroid Explosion Almost Caused a Nuclear War in 2002?
Today I thought “I know, instead of staying home to do work today, I’ll go into the lab, thereby forcing myself to be productive.” Well that didn’t work. But, during the height of my procrastination, while reading about Pluto and … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, History, Politics, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged asteroid, eastern mediterranean event, fat man, hiroshima, india, kuiper, little boy, nagasaki, near earth object, nuclear bomb, pakistan, Pluto
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God’s Debris, William Blatty, Loneliness, Depression, and the Evolution of Morals
God’s Debris, a novella by Scott Adams – who is better known for being the creator of Dilbert – is sort of a little gem that discusses some philosophical ideas and musings, one of which relates to the origin of … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Fiction, Film, Mental Health, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged depression, evil, Exorcist, god, god's debris, good, legion, loneliness, morals, ninth configuration, patricia churchland, scott adams, william blatty
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