I enjoyed this exercise… I liked the lines from Viegener most when he was telling me something he’d learned from visiting places and hanging out with people, like hearing it from a friend in conversation. That said, most of mine are … Continue reading →

1. I was raised by a Christian mother and a Muslim father, who sent me to Catholic school (for the discipline!). In spite of their best efforts I’m agnostic now. 2. I come from a very musical family, my father … Continue reading →

Admittedly I began Matias’ book with a bit of skepticism. Not so much at the quality of the book but in my ability to find meaning in a series of random thoughts. To my surprise the style in which Matias … Continue reading →

1) I don’t want to be any more real than one of Virginia Woolf’s fertile facts. 2) Scientists are studying the intelligent movement of insects to design miniature camera-robots to crawl around inside our bodies. 3) Whenever I cheat on … Continue reading →

Comments about Viegener collection of 2500 post to the internet My mind kept drifting off as I read the posts or list, my own history would keep getting mixed up with parts of his history. Mainly about Peggy dying, for … Continue reading →

1. Choose two related passages, one from Casey’s novel and one Hacking’s chapter. 2. Talk about how the passages illuminate each other with regard to a shared question–or  a set of related questions. 3. Discuss why the question matters, how it … Continue reading →

“Piece by piece, piece by piece, this is how the story will reveal itself.” (Casey, 202) Albert in this novel is just like the Doctor, Walter, Marian and the rest of us, when he is striving to recall his life … Continue reading →