The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...
Laughter

Laughter

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   I hate scarce smiles, I love laughing. William Blake annotations to Aphorisms on Man by Johann Caspar Lavater   Several have defined man as “an animal which laughs.” Henri Bergson,...
The Art of Empty Spaces

The Art of Empty Spaces

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   On the Paseo de la Reforma, that grand avenue simulating the entrance to an imperial Mexico City that of course no longer exists, there’s a quadrangle of tiny absences, small plazas, where once there...
A Doodle A Day

A Doodle A Day

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information}       “You see,” said Thurber sadly, “that’s the way life goes.  I write stories with the utmost care, rewriting every one from three to 10 times.  I have written so many of them for the New...