Feb 7, 2025#255: "MY HANDS OF WIND, MY TONGUE OF SUN."#255. “MY HANDS OF WIND, MY TONGUE OF SUN.” The name and poetry of Osip Mandelstam were largely unknown in the West, I suspect, until...
Jan 28, 2025#254: TIMOTHY.#254: TIMOTHY. Gilbert White was born in 1720; I assume he must have been one of those mythic babies born with their eyes fully open. ...
Dec 17, 2024#253: PURSUING TIBET.#253: PURSUING TIBET. In “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Richard Dreyfuss’s character Roy, after having been terrified, considered...
