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(Artistic) devaluation of the dollar
The dollar isn’t what it used to be. I’m not talking economics here; I’m talking esthetics. And actually, the dollar bill is about the only one that actually IS what it used to be. The U.S. mint and...
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The Maxim Gun
Nobody writes epigrams anymore, and we are the worse for it. Instead, they are too busy writing Tweets. The difference? A Tweet says in 140 characters what no one needs to say. An epigram says in a...
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Reading material
I began seriously reading in high school, mostly contemporary fiction. I don’t remember what I could possible have made of Saul Bellow’s Herzog at the age of 16, but there it was. I followed that with...
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The cathedrals of northern France part 11: Sainte-Chapelle
How do you hold up a roof? Seems like a simple question: Walls hold up a roof. And if your roof is heavy and two or three stories up? A stronger, thicker wall. This is the problem faced by the...
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Circles, curves, and arcs
Work has become the habit of a lifetime, and a habit is hard to break. So, even though I have been retired for seven years, I wake up each day believing that I must produce something. What is produced...
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Pecking
I sit across the table from my brother at the seafood restaurant in Virginia and he doodles on a napkin with a Sharpie. My brother is an artist — primarily a printmaker, but more recently a painter....
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