Ghulf Genes

During my time of rarely violated absenteeism from blogging, I’d quite forgotten how much labor goes into this activity. Now memory is itsel...

We were discussing, Brigitte and I, how dreams communicate ideas using symbols—indeed that even when we are in a full state of wakefulness,...

During a recent exchange, Brigitte noted that our memories of the past filter out most of the ugly and the bad. Not always, to be sure, but ...

It’s curious but oh so true that genuine learning is enormously helped by a physical component, a physical doing . Reminded of this by a pos...

The following extract is taken from a strange and wondrous essay titled Air War and Literature ( Luftkrieg und Literatur ) by W.G. Sebald, ...