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Figure, Ground, Imagined, Real: Not So Very Different

From whiskey river: The Cutting-beam Imagine this blur of chill, white, gray, vague, sadness burned off. Imagine a landscape of dry clear sunlight, precise shadows, forms of pure color. Imagine two...

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Best Not to Wait

[Image above, "Don't Wait for Tomorrow" (original oil on board, 92cm x 122cm), by Nadeem Chughtai] From whiskey river: I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress...

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Books Beyond Books

The whole e-books vs. traditional books debate spins crazily about one question: What is a book, anyhow? Let’s pursue that question a step further: What is a reader? Science-fiction (etc.) author Cory...

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Ingredients of Revelation

From whiskey river: Shinto When misfortune confounds us in an instant we are saved by the humblest actions of memory or attention: the taste of fruit, the taste of water, that face returned to us in...

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Cold. So Cold.

[Image: "ice-creeksicles," by Jeremy Hiebert. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Winter Afternoon by the Lake Black trunks, black branches, and white...

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What Lies Beneath

[Image: lunar surface, color-enhanced, per results of the NASA GRAIL mission. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): “My soul knows my...

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Clumsy Delights, Deftly Managed

[Image: "Duck with Slinky- 1," by user SteveTaint at sxc.hu] From whiskey river: The Afterlife While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth, or riffling through a magazine in bed, the dead...

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Potpourri, June 18th (2013 edition)

[Continuing in what seems to have become an annual June 18 tradition, of commenting about whatever the heck I want to...] [Video: Neil Gaiman signs 1200 copies of his newest novel, The Ocean at the End...

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The Devil(s) You Don’t Know

[Image: "The Cadejos," hand-painted etching on paper, by Todd Freeman; found on Flickr. (Click to enlarge.) For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Everybody...

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Wonder in the Interstices

[Image: “Le Bestiaire,” a mural painted by B. de Renty and Ph. de Lanouvelle (1996) on the side of a building on Rue de la Croix Nivert in Paris. (Click here to enlarge.) You can find other photos of...

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