Contributions by:
Thomas de Zengotita
To read Dr. James Dobson’s Dare to Discipline (1970) is to be transported, as if by the tang of a Proustian biscuit, back to the ’60s, back to the lived reality-the very qualia of that era are resurrected in this book. But the perspective is unfamiliar. Instead of a Bobo stroll down the lane of…
Read Full Article...The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried; “I will tell you. We have killed him-you and I… But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we…
Read Full Article...At first only a few of us noticed, and we didn’t talk about it until later—though most of us probably tried to check with someone early on. I know I did. Putting it as a matter of curiosity, in passing, but seriously, the way you might ask “Have you ever had a dream where you…
Read Full Article...“If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in darkness, cold, and silence… Life knows us not and we do not know life—we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after…
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