A pair of tortoises set fire to a home in Fordingbridge, the Salisbury Journal reports. Remember how we all laughed at the Ugandan policeman who shot and killed a fleeing tortoise. After it aggressively and violently chased him? Maybe we owe him an apology. Who was it who said the definition of serendipity is shooting an armadillo and having the bullet ricochet and hit your mother-in-law? Because that happened in Georgia.

Saturday, March 31, 2012. Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism. In her 2008 novel A Mercy. Toni Morrison imagines a frontier Virginia of the late 1600s, a century before the American Revolution. She has found in this time and place valuable insights into the relationship between slavery and race, a relationship that is taken for granted but that is after all contingent.

Chiasmus, peregrinations, ruminations, dilemmas. Friday, May 28, 2010. Saturday, May 08, 2010. Saturday, May 01, 2010.

I once saw two old ladies sitting agape at a David Grossman lecture. They stared in awe, and occasional sighs of admiration escaped their open mouths. They had fallen into a state of Literary Rapture. Friday, January 29, 2010.

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The neuroscience fallacy and the startling truth. Quite a claim, you might say. I mean, science is supposed to be the discipline that makes sense out of the world. If anyone should understand causality, it is the scientists! Let me explain what I mean. Now, bear with m.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Lethargy were a technical grind band from Rochester, New York. A bit reminiscent of Human Remains, but even more technical in terms of guitar and bass playing, drumming, and overall song composition. Their complexity and originality cannot be matched! DISC 1 PART 1.