Moving Day …..
Any semi-serious reader who has moved knows it is a weighty matter. Books are heavy. When you’re …
Tag Archives: literature
Simplicity….
We construct our own complexity cages and then obediently step inside and close the door on ourselves. Once inside …
A Quiet Haven….
Call us lone wolves. Sometimes Steppenwolves. Lately I’ve come across a new term: Sigma males. We’re not …
“Like Lambs To The Intellectual Slaughter…”
Fatigue and ruin Recently I’ve been boning up on my Canadiana with a short book on the history of …
The Plague….
Serge is in his seventies, a lawyer, and taught philosophy in college for three decades. And he’s a thoroughgoing …
Open For Business (Life) Again!….
The Cafe’s been closed for over a year now. However, yesterday I renewed my omphaloscafe.com domain for another year so …
A Long And Winding Road….
What a difference thirty five years can make! Last time in Paris I was lost, utterly lost. I …
“My Only Friend… The End!”
Inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise cemetery and the grave of Jim Morrison: “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] …
Planting Seeds….
I have a saying I drag out now and then. It goes: “Don’t judge a book by its cover; …
The Priests And The Shaman…
“And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …
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