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...remember--I'm no Dave Letterman (feel free to insert a derogatory joke here), but here goes...
...Kennedy's effective devices here is to insert scenes from Daugherty's autobiographical plays from the early years of the 20th century. In them Edward's love for Katrina survives above the wreckage of their marriage. In other lightly veiled dramatizations of his life, he lashes out at a former mistress who sleeps her way to silent-movie stardom. "Love is vertical," he writes. "You are relentlessly horizontal." Off the stage he confronts the novel's villain, an envious journalist and failed writer, with the killer line, "If your fiction was half as imaginative as your lies, you would have...
...comparable to physical properties like mass or space or time. And maybe, by some law of the universe, consciousness accompanies certain configurations of information, such as brains. Maybe information, though composed of ordinary matter, is a special incarnation of matter and has two sides--the physical and the experiential. (Insert Twilight Zone music here...
...FACT THAT STEVE Forbes finds himself on the cover of TIME magazine this week says a little bit about Steve Forbes and a lot about American politics. A dark-horse candidate usually has to win something, or lose by less than expected, before he can hope to insert himself into the national imagination. Forbes is not the first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place...
Friends come up to me and say, "Wow, they're doing well this year! But we don't have a chance to beat [insert team here], though...