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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Climate Debate Daily

Monday, March 24, 2008

Climate Debate Daily brings to mind a sound bite from a long-ago seminar to the effect that a 5º increase in temperature should be sufficient to set up net accumulation of snow and ice in the polar regions. That was when the data on global warming and the computational power to model were not so well [...]

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The repose of illness

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Lying in bed with aching joints and a fever,
wracking up plugs of phlegm,
the patient suffers the annual spring chest cold
As the voice descends to the lower register,
so does the normal awareness of time, 
like Einstein’s traveler
Whatever it was, last week or next, will have to wait
The faint cares of taxes and insurance pass through brief notice
Vague [...]

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Who was Marlow telling?

Saturday, March 22, 2008

“‘Be careful with that jury rig, Marlow,’ said the captain.” Marlow’s listener is quoting Marlow qouting the nameless captain quoting Conrad speaking to us of his memories and dreams speaking to him. Other times, Marlow’s listener sits quietly, relighting a pipe, considering whether to have another glass of whiskey … just, mainly,  just listening. Listening to Marlow [...]

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