The picture I have posted as my profile picture is an image of Paul Klee's "Traumstadt", translated as "City of Dreams". I don't know what draws me so much to the painting. When I was in Germany, going to all these art museums that were filled with some amazing works, including the presentation of the MOMA collection that was in Berlin during the ( Read more... )

About midway through my reading of "Gravity's Rainbow", I decided to start marking pages where I read something that I felt was a little quotable nugget of knowledge, so my apologies to anyone who is a "Gravity's Rainbow" fanatic who stumbles across this entry and realizes that all these quotes come from the last half of the book. I did include ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about humanity's obsession with boundaries. We seem to always want to delineate things in our world. This has been even more prevalent in my mind as of late with the (admittedly snail's paced) reading of "Gravity's Rainbow" and beginning to take biology, probably the king of sciences dealing with classifications, ( Read more... )

Seeing my niece the other day, it got me thinking about kids.  No, not about having them.  While I would love a child if I had one, I am not ready for that kind of responsibility in my life.  It got me thinking about when I was a kid, what the play structure was like, the social hierarchy of the playground so to speak.  I was a child once, and the ( Read more... )