by Think In The Morning | May 6, 2020 | Words |
Previously Discussed Literature On The 1918 PandemicKatherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale RiderWilliam Maxwell: They Came Like Swallows This grey wall, unshaken, mighty, was the end of the long preparation, as it was the end of the sea. It was the reason for...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 30, 2020 | Words |
To deal with pandemics, read about them. That’s my advice.The 1918 pandemic did not inspire much literature of its own. World War I sucked up all the paper and ink with such greats as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front (1928) and Hemingway’s...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 27, 2020 | Words |
“Cruelty to animals will get you punished, but cruelty to humans will get you promoted.” (as one of Brit’s friends said to her at the immigrant detention center where she worked in Ali Smith’s SPRING) In a previous blog I explored Ali Smith’s Autumn, the...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 22, 2020 | More |
One of the first blogs I wrote concerned a philosophical conundrum that is also a political conundrum: The Trolley Problem and the Winter of our Discontent. The problem addressed is simple in theory but oh so difficult in practice. How should we deal with a policy...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 20, 2020 | My Book |
Behind The Locked Door is available in Mendocino from Gallery Bookshop, Moore Books, and the Mendocino Public Library; in Fort Bragg from The Bookstore and the Fort Bragg Public Library, in Ukiah from The Mendocino Book Company, in Jacksonville, OR from Rebel Heart...
