relentless elaboration

Month June 2008

what's the point of tofu?

According to Neal Stephenson, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz once said “[there are] two great labyrinths into which the human mind is drawn: one is the question of free will versus predestination, and the other is the nature of the divine ether”… Continue Reading →

Topics in History

I was driving in the car with my daughter and got to talking about another graduate degree, and she said I should think about history. She said her history professor reminded her of me or vice versa, and she said… Continue Reading →

the time and the place

080603 To Jim, on the occasion of your fiftieth birthday. To my brother and my best friend — everything changed, then changed again. … bumpty-two my very first recollection of us together was that once upon a time, a long… Continue Reading →

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