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A Birthday Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
Poems, Enigmas and Ironies Jorge Luis Borges the Argentine writer was born August 24, 1899. This year, on the occasion of his 112th birthday, there were celebrations in Buenos Aires and Google honored the writer with their custom homepage logo. … Continue reading
The Bible: Gutenberg’s Printing Shop, Year 1439
Books have a special appeal to me–I like the look and touch of a good book. A few years ago, when presented an opportunity to spend several evenings inside the Stanford Green Library rare books room, I leapt at the … Continue reading
Gourmet: Mech. Soft Menu (Part 3.)
The Critical Decision is ? Yesterday’s second episode of Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu left the story-teller in the Stanford ER waiting for a bed (parking spot for my gurrney) in the Critical Decision Unit, CDU. That was where treatment would … Continue reading
Gourmet: Mech. Soft Menu (Part 2.)
The path to the Critical Decision Unit Yesterday’s first episode of Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu left the story-teller in the Stanford ER waiting for a space-aged camera to arrive and look inside the sick story-teller’s pharynx—there is that word again. … Continue reading
Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu
Instead of describing a book from Carto’s library, the next few blog postings will be a story of my own concoction; history, the events are true, but may be poorly remembered or told. I will relate my unplanned entry into … Continue reading
WWII Resistance: Soldiers Without Uniforms
Khristo’s story begins in a town on the banks of the Danube River: “On a muddy street in the river town of Vidin, Khristo Stoianev saw his brother kicked to death by fascist militia.” In the brutal opening scene of … Continue reading
Oedipus—A King in Torment
The lights dim in the tiny Nitery Theater on the campus of Stanford University and the packed house hushes. The lights come on again; dimly. Chorus appears at the edge of the empty stage and we hear Seneca’s lines of … Continue reading
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