Literature
Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84. So it goes.
Here’s the New York Time obituary. Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and the news is too awful, and humor doesn’t work anymore. Somebody like Mark Twain thought life was quite awful but held the awfulness at bay with jokes […]
The Highwayman
I usually don’t like fan-made music videos, but I love this song, so I’m making an exception for this one. “The Highwayman” was written by Alfred Noyes. The music in the video is by Loreena McKennitt.
Words Of Comfort…Compliments of PKD
I’ve been looking through some Philip K. Dick material and I thought I’d share this particular passage: The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. George Orwell made this clear in his […]