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SFG75 has posted here http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/showthread.php?p=212919#post212919 regarding children's books on Halloween. I made one post there regarding Nietzsche and the "Will to Power" (ghosts are powerful in one sense.) I wanted to mention the "Witch of Endor" episode in the...

Here is this morning's internet dialogue in Yahoo chat between myself and a professor of folklore in South India, posted with his permission. I have done only minor editing. Our dialogue explores the synergy between faith and doubt, and the cyclic nature of the spiritual pendulum between...

A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he believes...

Someone has written to me, asking advice regarding their aging father, a victim of Alzheimer's, dad's savings account of one million dollars, and four siblings who are in conflict with one another regarding the money and their father's circumstances. Here is my advice: Lincoln said "Most...

I post and correspond quite a bit at myspace.com/literarydiscussions Here is an interesting post: Sitaram replies to some correspondence (below): There is a passage in the Old Testament, either in Ezekiel, which pertains to your question. (paraphrased from memory) "If a man should life all...

I was just now reading a thread here about a knight who has a vision of God in a forest. I was suddenly reminded of a dream I had 15 years ago, in which I had a vision of God. It was a very unusual dream, and once I awakened, I immediately wrote it down. Here is what I wrote. I do not claim...

John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Book IV - Chapter XV Of Probability http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publicATIONS/Projects/digitexts/locke/understanding/chapter0415.html (excerpt) Probable arguments capable of great variety. Upon these grounds depends the...

Yesterday, for the first time from work, I tried repeatedly to log in, but could not. I am posting this from home, where apparently a cookie keeps me logged in indefinitely. I had wondered, yesterday, whether I were somehow persona non grata because of my "Palm Pilot Adventures" post. Then, I...

I hope this post will not be construed as an advertisement. I am posting because I found a freeware program that will convert literally anything to a document readible on your PDA (Palm or other brand). There are also freeware readers. Here is my post (from...

Here is the link to my blog entry, which is lengthy, since I include many examples from the King James version of the Bible, and from Shakespeare. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=71049306&blogID=122877714&Mytoken=7DEC9C54-3D0C-4D49-83813A5C514AD09B1322783578...

Someone in Yahoo books & literature chat just asked me about this work. Here is what I found at wikipedia: The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan...

Several years ago, I searched in google regarding some issue of writing style (I now forget the details). What I came upon was a website dedicated to reform in legislation to legalize the use of marijuana. The interesting thing was that the webmaster had posted a long tutorial on editorial...

paparazzi: Director Frederico Fellini named a hyperactive photographer in his film La Dolce Vita Signore Paparazzo, after Italian slang for "mosquito". The popularity of Fellini's film led to the widespread use of the term paparazzi for relentless swarms of celebrity-chasing photographers...

World, as you crush my life Upon your naked breast, I love and hate you. With this double-sided coin Of Janus emotion, I pay your harlot’s wage. And we are Ram and Ravanna Merging into one in our rage. Good and evil both: Good transforming evil, And life transforming death. I...

I found this in a post at myspace.com and thought it amusing, and naughty. But, then, many a true word said in jest.

Today I purchased a DVD of this old B&W movie for $5.00. If I passed it up, I might never see it again. The price is not so much more than a two day rental. This movie stars Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles and Jeanne Moreau. The Gutenberg Project has a free translation available at...

I have just watched Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams on DVD. I would like to comment about the first of the eight dream episodes. The following excerpts will give some helpful background to understanding the man, Kurosawa, and his movie, Dreams. I hope to make my personal observations in a second...

In 1965, our high school chemistry teacher recommended this as an excellent example of scientific observation. I never took the opportunity to examine it until now. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1860Faraday-candle.html

Subtitled: My Sermon to Yahooligans Today, in Yahoo chat (Entertainment & Arts Books & Literature), I tried to discuss two different topics; hypertextuality and John Barths Literature of Exhaustion. We may possibly see the beginnings of hypertextuality in Laurence Sterne's Tristram...

To paraphrase Viktor Frankl, in his book "Man's Search for Meaning", an account of his time spent in a Nazi concentration camp: "Our ultimate freedom, which no one can take from us, is our freedom to choose the manner in which we regard our circumstances, whether they be imprisonment or...