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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Do you hear what I hear? / Listen to what I say

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Further reflections/manifesto on possible podcasts/videos, elated by Sufjan's Christmas music again, and with Pullman's great essa...

This year's read: the pluripotent Kierkegaard

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In the way the music arises from the welter of Beethoven's 9th, or perhaps more along the lines of the gentle production of patterns in ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Open letters to friends

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In response to Pat's email of the other day-- https://eand.co/how-american-d iscourse-died-3a482f37099d   Can we do anything to hel...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Interviews with three Spokane authors

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Conceived as an ongoing project to live at Spark , this ended up being something I worked on just during the summer, but let's say it go...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

The Righteous Mind and From Under the Rubble, plus a podcast

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In The Righteous Mind , Jonathan Haidt helpfully summarizes his points neatly as he goes, and he compresses a convincing hypothesis supporte...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Semester finals, and a first foray into podcasting

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Why am I here? The original import of that question, asking it not in a cosmic but a straightforwardly literal sense, hit me a long time a...
Friday, January 26, 2018

A source of metaphors for, and literally the grounds of, human nature: The Gene

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In the essay "On Writing Stories" placed towards the beginning of his new book of essays, Philip Pullman says, "So: where a...