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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami Tokyo can feel painfully lonely. Maybe it's the capsule hotels. Maybe it's the silent trains-packed with commuters, each isolated in private thoughts. Or maybe it's the presence of Haruki Murakami, whose writing illuminates isolation both cosmic and urban. In this collection of previously published work, he revels in his favorite theme. Witness "The Year of Spaghetti," in which the narrator spends every day cooking pasta in a pot "big enough to bathe a German shepherd in," though there's no one else to cook for. A woman phones...
...that there is a rough analogy between this pair and Casablanca's Rick and Ilsa--except (and it's a big exception) that Lena, unlike Ilsa, has become hard, manipulative and utterly selfish. Also, she doesn't just need ditsy letters of transit. She's involved in the more cosmic issue of the competition between the Russians and the Americans for the services of German rocket scientists who were complicit in the Holocaust...
...more than two decades, a handful of Harvard researchers has been trying to make a cosmic connection...
Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Charbonneau, slim-hipped Science A-47, “Cosmic Connections” heartthrob and member of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, answered FM’s rather-forward question. Let’s see. I would say that seven billion years ago a previous star that was the ancestor of the sun went through a supernova dispersing its newly-formed elements into the galaxy, and then the protostellar cloud that would later become the sun collapsed out of this material, and planets formed around that newly formed star, and those elements...