I started watching The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and was immediately aware of a connection between Dr. Moriarty and the common idea of the disaffected nerd. The intellectual takes interest in obscure subjects because of social ineptitude and rejection. He or she pursues solitary hobbies or joins with other quirky types in nerdy interests. TheContinue reading “The Myth of Antisocial Intellectuals in Popular Conception and Fictional Characterization”
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The Immorality of Distinction in Human Relationships
In The Pianist, the artist as an exceptional individual stands passively defiant to the lie of the antagonists. His very existence challenges the Big Lie of the Nazis. He is the greatest pianist in the world, a Jew, a member of the outcast and inferior group. Similarly, Polanski himself feels this way about his ownContinue reading “The Immorality of Distinction in Human Relationships”
THE REVERIE ALONE
Since my dad’s passing weekends giveMe leisure more than ever I have knownAnd showed what pleasure one can liveWith reverie alone. Often in naked thought I standBefore the mirror of my mindAnd feel that in itself is grand,And love my genius blind. As options for the bees and birdsBecome few now I take my easeByContinue reading “THE REVERIE ALONE”
A Matter of Identity
It first occurred to me in context of sexuality that people’s thinking, and particularly ideological and paradigmatic conceptions, are based on identity, not facts or evidence or logic or science or even just belief. This was back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I was thinking about a lot of identity-centered concepts, notContinue reading “A Matter of Identity”
A Certain Slant
Something alone at night longs for the sightOf a woman sitting at a desk, the lightCast by a lamp upon the desk, a glowOver her shoulders, gilding longing inA mythology of feelings, quietlyApart from actual experience. That longing, something ignorant of life,Lives out of time in a flickering its own,A momentary impression, independentlySuspended sense ofContinue reading “A Certain Slant”
New method for producing poems
JUST SAYIN’
I am seeing the wayeven small things expressed just soin casual correspondence particularly in this age ofabundant written expression can be clarified bybreaking the prose into lines only thatand suddenly the mundane becomes profounda shopping list rivalingthe Sistine Chapel for meaningful attentionin our busy lives KLK 9/8/16
You’ve Got the Look
These days seem tawdry. Take the roads and note Proliferation of neglect, a pox Of potholes barely kept at bay by rote Repair between the storms, darned holey socks, Revealing our corruption everywhere. The ways by which we transport, both ourselves And cargo, bifurcated by despair, Take some one way, most otherwise, which tells AContinue reading “You’ve Got the Look”
Something Old, Something Borrowed
Everyday things if they last long enough in good condition wind up more interesting to others than their owners. There is something backwards about that. Let us start by considering our own lives and contemporary customs. Yard and garage sales, and also estate sales which more specifically mean someone has died and left stuff, attractContinue reading “Something Old, Something Borrowed”
Do You Really DO All Your Own Research?
Perhaps you wouldn’t think that research on doing research would be a worthwhile study. My first reaction is that it seems a bit like monitoring and surveillance, someone studying the studiers. However, on further consideration it is no different from time and efficiency studies. Also, as Buckminster Fuller observed, many developments can happen by chance.Continue reading “Do You Really DO All Your Own Research?”
I Dwell In Possibility 