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The Plague….

June 13, 2026

   Serge is in his seventies, a lawyer, and taught philosophy in college for three decades. And he’s a thoroughgoing …

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Open For Business (Life) Again!….

June 8, 2026

The Cafe’s been closed for over a year now. However, yesterday I renewed my omphaloscafe.com domain for another year so …

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A Long And Winding Road….

March 27, 2025

  What a difference thirty five years can make!    Last time in Paris I was lost, utterly lost. I …

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“My Only Friend… The End!”

March 24, 2025

Inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise cemetery and the grave of Jim Morrison:   “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] …

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Planting Seeds….

March 5, 2025

 I have a saying I drag out now and then. It goes:    “Don’t judge a book by its cover;  …

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The Priests And The Shaman…

March 3, 2025

  “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …

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On Ulysses, Books, Books, Books, and ‘Coffined Words…’

December 18, 2023

   I wrote this in response to a comment I received today on a YouTube video I did many years …

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Life Is On BOTH Ends Of A Gun….

October 29, 2023

  “All these characters, moving around and against one another, share but facets of some prodigious unity and are at …

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Poetic Gold….

October 27, 2023

 “The poet is the intense centre of the life of his age to which he stands in a relation than …

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The View From On High…

August 23, 2022

From an email to a friend:   Beautifully put, Blaire, for we are all one family, and more or less …

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