Archive for May, 2008
Science and Literature
In his article May 11 article for the Boston Globe titled Measure for Measure, Johnathan Gottschall writes:
We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate surer and firmer knowledge about the things we study. While most other fields gradually accumulate new and durable understanding about the world, the great minds of literary studies have, over the […]Mountains in the clouds
If you’ve known me any length of time and if we have ever spoken about Nepal, I have probably told you about that moment when you look out the airplane window and realize that those white things out there aren’t clouds but the snow-capped tops of the Himalayas. At eye level. Next to the […]
Thursday music
Siouxsie’s back, baby. OK yeah so actually she’s been back a while and I’ve been slow to react. The album’s called Mantaray and though it’s got mixed reviews (and the videos have a distinct 80s nightmare vibe), mostly we just love it because it’s Siouxsie.