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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
Our Fighting Forces #156
Our Fighting Forces #156Our Fighting Forces #156
Tamas in our time
Ancient texts often resonate with startling relevance. Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita for the first time in many years, I read the following passage with new eyes. The context: Krishna teaches that tamas is one of the three gunas, the movers of all action, “the bonds that bind / The undying dweller / Imprisoned in the body.” …