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I just fin­ished read­ing an over-heated novel by Ray­mond Khoury, The Sign. I’m never really sure why I’ve read one of his nov­els when I fin­ish: the plots are unlikely, the char­ac­ters sim­pli­fied and the themes painted in awfully broad strokes. He’s too cere­bral to be a pulp writer, and too unimag­i­na­tive to be a […]

6rzjifstn9 my tech­no­rati claim. this is a slow place, personal pace.

via nytimes.com An artist makes choices. The first choice is what to see. Many stop at a fixed view and hone craft. Ensor forced craft to fol­low a shift­ing view. At the cen­ter, was his per­cep­tion of his self, always changed by context.

Some moments cap­ture the senses and remain imprinted in an imme­di­ate and per­ma­nent way. Mer­cer Eli­ade spoke of Sacred Time, the way that rit­ual trans­ports us from our every­day expe­ri­ence of time into a state that is con­nected to our social being. I think of these moments as being ful­crum points of our iden­tity. When […]

Two recent arti­facts tickle the imag­i­na­tion and, per­haps, raise some fig­ment of our core essence. They date to 35,000 years ago. The first is a fig­urine from the Hohle Fels Cave in south­west Ger­many. The sec­ond are musi­cal instru­ments from the same site. I report the dis­cov­ery of a female mammoth-ivory fig­urine in the basal Auri­gna­cian deposit […]