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Jul.28.2008
Still trapped in the time-loop - and I have to say, I'm becoming rather frustrated with some of the shenanigans the crew are getting up to - they think that since this 45 seconds is all they have to consider, they can get away with bloody murder - it started with number two's speed-dating idea,...
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Jul.28.2008
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem work....i.e. the kernel of what resonates, rather than how it's achieved - the assumption being that it is achieved via craft, beauty, music, imagery,...
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Jul.27.2008
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem work....i.e. the kernel of what resonates, rather than how it's achieved - the assumption being that it is achieved via craft, beauty, music, imagery,...
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Jul.27.2008
Today we passed through an unmapped wormhole, which had the disturbing effect of sending us into a time-loop - we'd get so far along, then things would begin again - it seems as if the loop is around 45 seconds long - not long enough for us to have a continuing discussion on how to break free from...
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Jul.26.2008
Well, I'm here to tell you that the pen is not, in fact, mightier than the sword - that theory was dis-proven on multiple occasions in Holodeck 1 today(at pixellated Commander Riker's expense, unfortunately - that'll teach him to fling those aphorisms around during our weekly poker game -...
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Jul.26.2008
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem work....i.e. the kernel of what resonates, rather than how it's achieved - the assumption being that it is achieved via craft, beauty, music, imagery,...
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Jul.25.2008
Spent the evening wrestling with Zeno's arrow paradox, in which he states that for motion to be occurring, an object must change the position which it occupies - he gives an example of an arrow in flight, and states that in any one instant of time, for the arrow to be moving it must either move to...
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Jul.25.2008
I started this blog because I was alerted to the fact that people are unaware that I'm actually a poet(and not just another blogger) - so my plan is to post a great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and to summarize the key elements that make the poem hit the target....i.e. the kernel of what...
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Jul.24.2008
I have been reviewing our 21st-century digital archives again, and came across some very interesting footage, as I believe they used to call it, of some of President Schwarzenegger's speeches in the lead-up to (and the aftermath of) martial law, after the collapse of the western financial systems....
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Jul.24.2008
I started this blog because I was alerted to the fact that people are unaware that I'm actually a poet(and not just another blogger) - so my plan is to post a great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and to summarize the key elements that make the poem hit the target....i.e. the kernel of what...
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Jul.23.2008
Managed to escape from the Holodeck early this morning, after stuffing handfuls of woodworm I imported into the program down the trombones of the insane dummies - it sounded like a free-jazz festival once they realized what was going on....quite a commotion...... A quiet night in my quarters...
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Jul.23.2008
I started this blog because I was alerted to the fact that people are unaware that I'm actually a poet(and not just another blogger) - so my plan is to post a great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and to summarize the key elements that make the poem hit the target....i.e. the kernel of what...
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Jul.22.2008
I have become trapped in the Holodeck again - I was halfway through a very enjoyable program in which I was an 18th-century archaeologist stumbling upon some fascinating pre-Colombian artefacts, when I was rudely interrupted by a rogue sub-routine - obviously programmed by number two - involving a...
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Jul.22.2008
I started this blog because I was alerted to the fact that people are unaware that I'm actually a poet(and not just another blogger) - so my plan is to post a great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and to summarize the key elements that make the poem hit the target....i.e. the kernel of what...
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Jul.21.2008
Dammit, I swore those Transactians wouldn't fleece me again - yet here I am in possession of a late-model positronic rabbit (complete with integral Web-browser). I mean, I don't know about you, but having a discussion about the finer points of Spinoza's "Ethics" with a small furry mammal...
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About Alex
Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Fear of Moving Water, his 2009 collection, was runner-up for both the Oscar Arnold Young and the...
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Causes Alex Grant Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center
Amnesty International
Moveon.org
Alex’s Favorite Books
Catcher in the Rye, Journey to Ixtlan, Voyage to Arcturus, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The White Hotel, The Four Quartets, The World Doesn't End...