Archive:
December 2024
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My message in The Catcher in the Rye
I first read The Catcher in the Rye when most American kids do – when they are about Holden Caulfield’s age. By the time it became known to me, The Catcher in the Rye had long since fallen from its supposed high point in the American zeitgeist, esteemed for its reputation rather than actual relevance,…
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The Death of a Dream: Part 2
The election of 2024 is a testament to the failure of character and commitment by Americans both educated and uneducated, the ultimate consequence of their psycho-emotional estrangement from themselves. Of course, they were fertile ground for the lies that allayed their fears. The fear enabled them to buy into a financial pipe dream. The fear…
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Have Yourself A Drony Little Christmas
At long last, we affect the Christmas mosey. I mention it only because I feel like I’m supposed to, but the bodements of early November this year quite plainly ran out of wind far prior to their customary denouement. It was at the onset of these Yuletide doldrums when, what to our wondering eyes should…
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Walk the Dog and Light the Light
It’s a homespun Woodstock album kind of thing going on, with Muddy Waters in the dead of winter, 1975.