Monday, June 7 2010
Viewing the World at the Level of the Snail’s Lowly Trail
"... I have crawled most of the way through life. I have crawled downward into holes without a bottom, and upward, wedged into crevices where the wind and the birds scream at you until the sound of a falling pebble is enough to make the sick heart lurch."
Wednesday, May 12 2010
We Are Fueled by the Fat of Their Land
The "monstrous steel molochs" of industrialized civilization are fueled by petroleum and not literally by the "fat of the natives", though for the Achuar people, the subject of this classic narrative, that might be a distinction without a difference.
Friday, August 3 2007
The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
The Human Touch is the latest in a series of blockbuster volumes in which writers from whom you might expect something different have taken on the cosmos, whether conceived physically or in intellectual terms.
