Hollow in the hand the hammer handle heft hides
Mass missing and lacks the back to break basalt
Nor grip nor traction will aid the mason
Bolster the buttress or counter the mine
Barbicans breached and glacis gone
Enciente exposed draws the siege to close
And begins the sack too late to parley
Saturday, September 6, 2008
And I must enter again the round
Zion of the water bead
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Each of us believes that our life tells a unique story. Not so. Each life tells a story uniquely but every story has been told and retold. That is what makes it a story rather than a childlike chronicle of “and then.” That is what makes it a story rather than a medical chart or [...]
“the dopaminergic cliché — it was the chemical explanation for sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.”
“To learn is to eliminate”
“There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively ‘free’ decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a [...]
Even though it may be, cry out not here
Not now, but slow, pray stay a short while more
Inplacable seas vector gravity’s sweep
Throw the wheel hard a lee into green waves
Chant the stokers down below fast and hard
Escort the supercargo aft the bridge
Eight bells, we need four more to clear lands’ end
Simple reduction simple focus clear
Along [...]
“How astonishing that, in a language we no longer know precisely how to pronounce, a poet or various poets whose faces and characters we cannot conceive, who lived in a society of whose customs and beliefs we have but a very vague idea, described for us our own lives today, with every secret happiness and [...]