History | History
Nov.22.2008
In May of 1906, a 38-year-old artist named Mary DeNeale Morgan ventured into San Francisco ten or twelve days after the great earthquake and fire and recorded the destruction in drawings and pastels.
It was important historically _ preserving in images a dramatic moment in time _ and a couragous...
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Nov.19.2008
Kafka instructed that his manuscripts and diaries and letters all be destroyed after his death. He chose the one person whom he knew would not do it (and told him he would not do it) to do the deed.
Nabokov asked that his final manuscript be destroyed. However, as I wonder as I did with Kafka, if...
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Nov.17.2008
At a time when we are inundated with war-like situations and images flash at us in almost synchronised form and seem colour-coordinated to match the backdrop, we have become lobotomised creatures. If at all we react it is because our systems and sensibilities are affected, not due to any revulsion...
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Nov.05.2008
I was sitting on a park bench on Main Street this afternoon.
I was taking advantage of the mild temperature (for November) while waiting for an appointment. A Black man, older than me, started to walk past. He was taking out his cell phone and was slowing down. He looked at me and said "Hello...
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Nov.05.2008
I'm still processing. Not sure I'm actually awake. It's not impossible that I hit my head sometime yesterday after voting and am unconscious somewhere or stumbling around in a delirium.
But, on the off chance that I'm not and have not slipped somehow into a parallel universe where good things...
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Oct.27.2008
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
Robert F. Kennedy
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Oct.26.2008
I was looking around in my cupboards for a common and humble household item to write a poem about...and found a box of table salt (When it rains...it pours), and thought, well now, that's just about as humble an item as one could ever hope to find . So, I decided to write about salt. Then I...
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Oct.23.2008
After evolution has taken a few more turns, will our digital books (?) be inked into tangible form?Bringing a Trove of Medieval Manuscripts Online for the first time
by JOHN TAGLIABUE
October 20, 2008
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland — One of the oldest and most valuable collections of handwritten medieval...
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Oct.20.2008
One of the projects I work on now and then, which started out as a biography, has gotten me thinking about history again. The recent hoopla over a million little half-truths and made up facts pushed me deeper into the same thoughts. Any of you who have known me for a long time will remember my...
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Oct.13.2008
PROLOGUE
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"Even though we face the
difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a
dream. I have a dream that
my four little children will
one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the
content of their character."
Martin...
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