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The Dawdler: March 2006

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Tuesday, March 14, 2006. A Meeting of the Editorial Board of. This photo of a gathering of some Parisian literati appears in a book-length photo essay by Gisèle Freund and V. B. Carleton entitled James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years. New York: Harcourt, 1965). The authors explain and identify the members of the group:. 1936 A photograph (published recently in Gisèle Freund's James Joyce in Paris. Group relaxing around a garden table o...

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The Dawdler: September 2005

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Friday, September 16, 2005. As our companionship, Edgar Anderson, points out in his stimulating sheets, "Growth, Adjectives, and God," primitive adjectives located the only reaches of theobromine known to this sunrise: in Sumatra, Coffea. First paragraph of the chapter "Beverages" from The Joy of Cooking. Revised and enlarged edition, volume 1, page 14, under noun 7 transformation). Posted by The Dawdler at 10:28 PM.

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The Dawdler: July 2005

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Sunday, July 31, 2005. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain. A waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain. By the false azure in the windowpane;. I was the smudge of ashen fluff - and I. Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. In his autobiographical poem, Shade frequently refers to birds by species. Both of his parents, he explains, were ornithologists. Posted by The Dawdler at 12:49 AM.

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The Dawdler: May 2005

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Tuesday, May 24, 2005. Persistence and Obliteration in Ancient Egypt. Some thoughts on one culture's extraordinary efforts to memorialize itself and so to defeat time, death, and forgetfulness. Pregnant with indirect relevance to my current perplexities. The Temple of Dendur, early Roman Period, circa 15 BC. 1 An illustration of the process of harvesting and threshing wheat, showing workers performing the various stages, including load...

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The Dawdler: May 2006

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Wednesday, May 10, 2006. That day, Craig, Geoff, and I checked out the Guinness Book of World Records. Museum, located in the basement of the Empire State Building. We perceived and interpreted the objects in the exhibit in light of Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality. I later glowingly (and smugly I know) pronounced the exhibit to be "the greatest collection of holographic kitsch in the world.". Posted by The Dawdler at 4:36 PM.

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The Dawdler: August 2005

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Thursday, August 25, 2005. Topic Trumps the Carpe Diem. On a sunny, almost cloudless day late in summer not that late though on the same day that I find my first fallen maple leaf of the season, I discover another casualty: a bumble bee, still perfectly intact, freshly dead, with a reflexive twitch still alive in his limbs, lying inert on the porch. Is it possible to memorialize a bee without descending into bathos? August 25, 2005).

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The Dawdler: June 2008

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Thursday, June 05, 2008. Those of us with suspicious minds - and there is plenty of grounds for suspicion these days - might well wonder: did Clinton and Obama emerge from the rest of the Democratic field as the result of a divide-and-conquer strategy, in which two important Democratic constituencies were set at odds with each other? What mechanism of influence could bring about such a state of affairs? Posted by The Dawdler at 4:06 AM.

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The Dawdler: April 2011

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Thursday, April 07, 2011. The Story of the Golden Temple. The Story of the Golden Temple: A guy fell in love with it, and burned it down. He couldn't stand the idea of its falling apart as it got older, and now the Golden Temple exists in perfect form forever, it became a myth. . . . That's why the Beatles will stay a beautiful myth, because they ended before they deteriorated. Posted by The Dawdler at 12:40 PM. View my complete profile.

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The Dawdler: December 2005

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Notes toward a rational critique of society as currently constituted. Thursday, December 08, 2005. Suddenly / I'm not half the muffin that I used to be. Posted by The Dawdler at 11:40 AM. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile. The Story of the Golden Temple. Shim Jambs at Noise New Jersey. The Memento Mori Topic Trumps the Carpe Diem Tradi. To My Darling and Favorite.