A scratchpad for exploring favorite themes: Borges, time, consciousness, computer science, etc.
I just finished Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey, a collection of lectures about poetry and art in general. It’s an amazing book...
After years of hearing Barry Lopez mentioned alongside some of my favorite writers—Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold—I finally began…
The strange thing about dreams isn’t that they’re strange. It’s that, as we experience them, they don’t feel strange. There’s something of…
Here’s one of the most wonderful passages in all of Borges, “On Exactitude in Science”:...
I’ve come to think of almost everything as explainable by some sort of feedback loop. ...
Loss has nothing to do with the past and everything to do with the future. You can’t lose what has already happened; the past is immutable…
An absolutely lovely passage out of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire…
What’s the ontological status of the past? Is it less real than the present because it no longer exists? Or more real because, in a universe…
Suppose the dead can return to the world and be anyone from any era: inhabit the life of a living person, think what they think, feel what…
On the burning February morning Beatriz Viterbo died, after braving an agony that never for a single moment gave way to self-pity or fear, I…