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• November 21, 2013

  Mountain chant

  A chant to be mumbled to oneself during meditation: * 1 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you I see the mountains. 2 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you I feel the mountains. 3 Swaying reeds like hanging beans Through you just the mountains. 4 Swaying reeds like hanging beans wending with the mountains. […]
• February 3, 2012

  My night with Colbert, my week with Montaigne

  It was fitting that one man I met on Monday night believes that reality has “the structure of a dream.” He was an eccentric  mid-40 something traveling across the country: from Spokane, Washington, down through Texas, and up and over, by way of New York City, to Cape Cod. Along the way, he was being…
• December 16, 2011

  On love, death, and um’s

  Imagine, if you will, a fully lived life. Having what you need and loving what you should. No more, no less, no other. * I read the last lines of George Whitman’s life and thus fell in love with a dead man. Whitman, 98, was a famous bookseller whose three floor shop was set down…
• December 7, 2011

  On the art of translation and a sense of a style

  On the Art of Translation. Of David Bellos’s Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (New York: Faber & Faber, 2011), a reviewer at The New Yorker observes, “In the English-speaking world, translation is mostly understood as [here quoting Bellos] ‘the transfer of meaning from one language to another,’ a sense derived…