Sunday, February 07, 2010

Gibberish, Part One Redux Redux (Text Choice)

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Dear Reader, Text is perishable, so the original manuscripts of older texts are usually lost, leaving us to read copies, or copies of copi...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

What's Your Name

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Dear Reader, Due to the high volume of spamming by anonymous posters, I have reluctantly banned further anonymous posting to this blog. I ...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Gibberish, Part One Redux (Word Choice)

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Dear Reader, Several different problems make translation hard. Word choice for example: A word in the original language rarely means exa...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Oaths and Fates

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Dear Reader, I've started a third blog, Oaths and Fates (http://oathsandfates.blogspot.com), where I'll be discussing Dungeons and...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Interlude with Li Po

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Dear Reader, Thanks again and again to Wikipedia and the wikipedians for their continuing mission to make so much information so widely avai...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Gibberish, Part One

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Dear Reader, In my blog entry on Saturday, April 28, 2007, I quoted verse 81 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : "True words...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Busy Busy Busy

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Dear Reader, I haven't forgotten about my blog here, but I've been distracted by (1) six deaths in my family in six months, and (2) ...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Sleepless

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Dear Reader, Ironically, for a man from a race of sleepwalkers, I can't sleep tonight. My Grandma, Ann Saling, died a week ago, and we h...

Spelling

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Dear Reader, I just corrected the spelling in my comment about myself, which previously read "curioser and curioser." My wife is a...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Pathei Mathos

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Dear Reader, I have started reading William Chase Greene's Moira: Fate, Good, & Evil in Greek Thought (1944, reprinted 1963) and I...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Tripping over the Voids

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Dear Reader, I noticed when Michael Distaso died. Death is not the five stages of grieving, neither like a program nor even like the authors...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Morgana LeFaye Marshall

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2 February 1989 – 15 April 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008

Morgana in Passing

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Dear Reader, I am sitting up with Morgana, our nineteen-year-old kitty. She is dying. Her decline has been rapid. A week ago she was still j...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Blessing of Paralysis

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[Originally written Sunday, 24 December 2006 at 12:27 PM] Dear Reader, When I force myself to do the wrong thing, eventually I lose my abili...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

EFL (English as a First Language)

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Dear Reader, As far as I know, I coined this sarcastic term about a decade and a half ago, but with modern cultural churn who can tell anymo...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Three New Volumes of Serge Mouraviev's Heraclitea, Part 1

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Cover of Serge Mouraviev's Heraclitea volume III.3.B/i, published by Academia Verlag Dear Reader, I last discussed Serge Mouraviev's...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

How Quick in Temper and in Judgment Weak

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Dear Reader, Rudeness, aggression, rage, paranoia, and addiction to crises make a wretched brew, make it difficult to help or even be close ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Nonpersistence of Memory

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Dear Reader, I based my description of the picture in the previous entry on the photo's timestamp recorded by the camera, but Beverly po...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Rashid and Surya a Year Ago

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Dear Reader, July of last year we brought home Rashid and Surya from PAWS. He was snuffly with a cold, which it took him a week and a half t...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

True words aren't beautiful

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Dear reader, One last verse, 81, from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : True words aren't beautiful beautiful words aren't t...
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