For the first time in 30 years I have subscribed to the NY Review of Books; speak of earnest writers. What in the world was the point of Oliver Sacks' reminiscences of Francis Crick and all that talk of his incandescence? The Bill Moyers piece as peculiar as the man, he who has a journalist's reverence for "knowledge" whatever that is.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Friday, March 11, 2005
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