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2. I Avoid Work | The Water Margin
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. 2 I Avoid Work. 2 I Avoid Work. Finally I come up with a short-term plan: I can put off reading the boxful of books by pulling them out and looking at their titles, and trying to remember why I brought those particular books to P.E.I. This will sort of look like constructive work, without actually requiring me to absorb any more depressing facts. Right in front of me is this damn Marq de Villiers book (W ater: the fate of our most precious resource.
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Findings | The Water Margin | the ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. The Muddy Edge of Sky. November 27, 2009 by lowrypei. This is Jerry’s Pit, once a spot where clay was dug for the local brick industry, later a swimming hole, now fenced on all sides and unavailable to human beings. We believe in the principle of public access to the seashore; why not to the shore closer to home? If our priorities on this spot were once manufacturing, then recreation, what are they now? And these are the marshes. To me the moss on the...
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8. I Stick My Toe in the Sea | The Water Margin
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. 8 I Stick My Toe in the Sea. 8 I Stick my Toe in the Sea. My stepson, Matt Sills, sends me an opinion piece from the San Francisco Chronicle. About how action must be taken to save the Salton Sea, a large but shrinking salty lake near the border with Mexico. Save the Salton Sea! There’s a proposed plan for how to do this, with an estimated cost of $8.9 billion. I’ve read just enough to think twice about this. This article doesn’t mention where the Sal...
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4. Subject to Distractions | The Water Margin
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. 4 Subject to Distractions. 4 Subject to Distractions. In the morning, I wake up to find a bat flying around the bedroom, which makes me happy. Unlike most people, I’m fond of bats, because I have experience with them up close and personal, stemming from two long-ago years when I was a lab technician back at Moo U. in Columbia, Missouri. I worked there instead of military service, because I was a conscientious objector during Vietnam. Worster’s thesis ...
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11. Return to Bangor Mall | The Water Margin
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. 11 Return to Bangor Mall. 11 Return to Bangor Mall. We get to Bangor, we eat dinner outdoors, appropriately next to a fountain, at a burger and beer joint downtown. We get up at 6:15, have the Comfort Inn’s continental breakfast (about which one might ask, Which continent? And head out into Mall World, where the Comfort Inn is conveniently located. At 7 am on Sunday sd have the place all to ourselves. Once again we park in the Borders parking lot.
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“Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem” | The Water Margin
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The ambiguous boundary zone between humans and water. 8220;Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem”. MIND IS PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM. A talk delivered at a conference on Evolution, the Environment and Responsible Knowledge, January 2009, University of Central Florida). This talk, really, is about different understandings of causation. And the difference that these understandings make. In a way it’s about a sort of culture war between physics and biology. One version of this doctrine is proselytized by Ray Kurzweil, ...
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Lowry Pei: Memoirs
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Memoirs and personal essays. The Things I Cannot Write. Very rarely, a piece of writing comes all at once in an unexpected rush that cannot be repeated. This is one of those. Perhaps it could only come into being that way, because the title is close to true. How could it have begun? How could it possibly have begun? Read more ». Download the full pdf [89.4kB] ». My father was a Chinese immigrant with a heavy accent, and a stutterer; I’m none of those things but I am audibly his son. Read more ». My stude...
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Lowry Pei: Bio
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My father grew up in Soochow, China; my mother came from Columbus, Kansas. Improbable as it seems even to me, they married in Chicago in 1946 and became my parents. I grew up in St. Louis in the 50’s, without air conditioning or TV, and with the radio on. The Cardinals game was going, it seemed, all summer; Chuck Berry was the. I had two mentally retarded brothers whose existence rendered our family life still more peculiar than it would have been anyway. In 1975 I got an unaccountable urge to write a no...
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Lowry Pei: Stories
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The stories are listed in chronological order, with either the year I started to write them or the year they were published. Barranca, King of the Tree Streets. I lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for six months in the latter half of 1977. Life there was in some ways peculiar, but not half as peculiar as this story. It appeared in Edges, an anthology edited by Ursula Le Guin and Virginia Kidd. 8220;Chestnut, Maple, Spruce—right around here.”. Read more ». Download the full pdf [141.4kB] ». Read more ».
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Lowry Pei: On Writing
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A meditation on how imagination, memory, and the self connect in the writing of fiction. Read more ». Download the full pdf [145.7kB] ». Novels for No One. This piece grew out of the Writer’s Journal from. In the course of writing that book I finally realized, contrary to what I had always hoped and assumed, that writing fiction is not an act of communication, or else communication is not what I once imagined. It seems to me that being clear on what we’re doing can only help in the making of art.
