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#44: EXCAVATING EMILY. “If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her,” Emily Dickinson wrote once in a letter; “If she did not, the...

#43:  COINCIDENCE OF OPPOSITES.  A scant two years separate the publications of two of the major works of world poetry: Whitman’s Leaves...

#42:  SO: THIS ZEN MASTER WALKS INTO A BAR….   Humor in Buddhism is usually chalked up to its contact in China with the Taoist writers,...