happy chaos freedom machine

My daughter has been hard at work on a webcomic based on the lives of the emperors who lead the transition from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire. It’s funny. We collaborated on a web site where she’ll be publishing it, 2 pages a week, from next week onwards. The first 3 pages of [...]

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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I [...]

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I am the product of two extremes – my father’s family only gets together once a decade, at most, and if they are in contact with one another in between those instances it is an occasion for maximum awkwardness, guilt and discomfort. My mother’s family has organized weekly teleconferences in order to plan for an [...]

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