I love reading Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and writer extraordinaire. (You don’t have to be Catholic or even Christian to love reading Thomas Merton.) In his journals, he is unguarded, funny, impatient, and introspective, always open to the possibility of discovery as he thinks aloud on the page. Here’s Merton at the age of fifty, …
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WorldCat
WorldCat is a publicly accessible online interface to the holdings of all types of libraries throughout the world: currently 57,000 libraries in 112 countries. Tell it what book you’re looking for and your zip code or city, and it will pinpoint the nearest library that has the book. Same goes for magazines and journals, video …
Witching Hour #63
Witching Hour #63Witching Hour #63
All-American Comics #26
All-American Comics #26All-American Comics #26
Turok: Son of Stone #48
Turok: Son of Stone #48Turok: Son of Stone #48
QotD Walter Granger
A young geologist challenged Walter Granger, saying, “Dr Granger, are you sure you’re right?” Granger answered, without a flicker of hesitation, “Young man, I will consider myself a great success in life if I prove to be right fifty per cent of the time.” from John McPhee’s masterful Annals of the Former World QotD Walter …
It’s oddly compelling to know that residents of Kivalina are interested in technical communication. Palimpsest: Living vicariously through our customers
Uncle Scrooge #150
Uncle Scrooge #150Uncle Scrooge #150
Cmaj7#4
Backing out of a parking space on this always grey and sometimes rainy day, I thought that if the day were a chord, it would be the one above, a major seventh with a raised fourth. It’s a Monkish chord (as in Thelonious), and to my ear it suggests wet streets, bare trees, and the …
Detective Comics #143
Detective Comics #143Detective Comics #143
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