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One of my favorite books is Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams, in which Lightman, an MIT physicist, imagines Einstein considering multiple modes of experiencing time. Time moves backwards, in endless repetition, in varying cycles of stunning strangeness. Einstein's Dreams is an elegant, vastly imaginative look at one of life's deepest mysteries. David Eagleman's SUM: Forty …
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If you sat down quietly to listen for and to God (or at least "the small still voice inside") and after awhile, a series of words presented themselves to you, and the first word was "possibility", what would you do with it? If you took "possibility" to be a word of direction, where would it …
"Don't talk to me of romances; I was sent into the world to dance on them with thick boots--to shatter, stab, and murder them." -- George Bernard Shaw. (His Collected Letters) The basic facts are these: George Bernard Shaw wrote the play on which the musical My Fair Lady is based 99 years ago, in 1912. …
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[Caveat: I wrote the following over the weekend before I'd had much a chance to read up on Shaw's take on things. Now I know more. Tomorrow I'll return to this theme. What follows in this post is uninformed and rambly, but I'd still be interested in seeing a production that came at the play …
So my friend wrote a comment on my post entitled "An Artist's Prayer" that read something like this: "How do you know the difference between artistic desire and artistic torment? It seems one and the same some days." Honestly, I'm not sure what she meant in asking the question, but given my mood today, it …
JEFF BERRYMAN 