Friday, October 30, 2026

The Aorounga Crater in northern Chad

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The 7.8-mile-wide scar from an asteroid impact 345 million years ago. Photographed from the ISS, May 10, 2021. NASA
Thursday, October 29, 2026

Apotheosis of the Industrious Imagination in the 20th-Century (with a passage from the Invisible Tower)

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Arbeiterstadt ~ Working-Class City aka City of Workers by Hans Baluschek, 1920 Oil on Canvas 123 cm x 92,1 cm Milwaukee Art Museum   The moo...
Wednesday, October 28, 2026

The Politics of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Gray Champion"

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       Having rejected basic conceptions of social subordination along with the lawfulness of established church institutions, the English r...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

The Prisoner, episode 8, "Dance of the Dead" - A philosophical essay of "institutions" (a moral sociology of institutions: the anthropology of institutionalized persons, institutional hierarchies and the institutions of interdependent human-institution relationships)

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Monday, October 26, 2026

"Night" by Terrance Lindall, Son of Heavy Metal Magaine, 1984

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A recent discovery: Terrance advises me that he was unaware this piece had been published.  He writes, "I don't remember getting pa...
Sunday, October 25, 2026

Highbrow advice from Dwight Eisenhower

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Saturday, October 24, 2026

H. P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountians of Madness" - two narrative interpretations and a historical synopsis

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Friday, October 23, 2026

Emanations 12 and Michael Butterworth's book on St Christopher School mentioned in the St Christopher Club newsletter

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In the latest St Christopher Club Newsletter , Club Secretary David Cursons gives  Emanations 12 a mention. The book presents the first ...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Do mental properties emerge as novel properties of complex material systems? How is this question altered when "emerge" is removed from the formulation? And so on.

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Are mental properties properties of complex material systems? Are mental properties complex material systems? Is mentality--or are mental p...
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Defamiliarization or "Art as Device" after Shklovsky

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

As you are now, once were we... As we are now, so you shall be

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   Corrected transliteration:    adalamŋinmenzen udba menden  adalamŋinmenden  zae hemen