Disclaimer: this essay contains spoilers from The Lost Women of Ballantine Castle. My newly self-published novel on Amazon titled The Lost Women of Ballantine Castle chiefly centers on the disappearances of undocumented maids dating from the 1980s to the pre-Covid Trump era, the time the story...
Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher 976 Death T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies 808 Death P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China 765 Event Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China 185 ...
Mathews and Perec’s 1977 essay “Roussel and Venice” takes as its starting point a (fictitious) prose sketch for a play allegedly written by Raymond Roussel in the wake of a (fictitious) 1895 visit to Venice with his mother, during which the eighteen-year-old is said to have met (and...
With regards to the rattlesnake’s historical adoption as a symbol of the strength of American independence, Benjamin Franklin phrased it best in his essay published by thePennsylvania Journal(quotepulled from this source); I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other anima...
That loss of trust is even worse than having no app at all. It has nothing to do with privacy concerns. The idea that contact tracing can be done with an app, and not human health professionals, is just plain dumb. EDITED TO ADD: This Brookings essay makes much the same point. ...