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Two images from a Log24 post of April 14, 2015 —

Image from an marcelanow Instagram story on November 23, 2021 —

Image from marrific (=marcelanow) on November 25, 2021 —

Reading The Human Stain —

But wait, there's more! 

The book , unlike the movie, doesn't have …

See Peplowski and The Human Stain  in  a post of Sept. 15, 2007.

Related material:  "In the desert, you can remember your name" and …

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Addendum of 10:30 PM ET November 22 —

The caption was inadvertently omitted from the above Black Rock City image. 
It was as follows:

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion

Yes, we do.

" 'Desertion' is the perfect story to make my case
that 1940s science fiction was often about the next
evolutionary step for our species." — James Wallace Harris, 9/18/21

From https://classicsofsciencefiction.com on Sept. 18, 2021 —

In “Paradise,” the mutants are that superior species,
ones who are waiting for normal humans to get their
act together. Mutants arrange for Tyler Webster 
to get a kaleidoscope that will trick his brain into
opening its higher functionality. The kaleidoscope
is like the toys from the future in “Mimsy Were the
Borogoves” that trigger evolution in normal human
children. 

See as well Mimsy and Kaleidoscope in this  journal.

For some less Meta  material from Marcela, see her Facebook site at

https://m.facebook.com/marrific/photos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 .

Related material from the Web —

". . . coming back to the real . . . ." — Wallace Stevens

— and from this journal —

 "Coming Back" .

From a thank-you-to-my-25K-followers 
Instagram story today:

"The southwest furthers." — Hexagram 40

The story was by Marcela Nowak,
LA-LA Art Director:

From a Log24 post of June 26, 2021, on Our Viennese Heritage —

A review of the dramatic legacy of Arthur Schnitzler
(La Ronde , Traumnovelle ) seems in order.

From Wikipedia today —

See as well the work of Marcela  Nowak (the marrific  of today's previous post),
whose CV could use an update.  "You've got skills."

Related reading —

Some art from a different rural location in October 1983 —

"For times like these, the Reading View feature in Microsoft Edge
acts as your own personal horse blinders, stripping unwanted
distractions and rendering just what you want to see."

— Scott Orgera at lifewire.com, January 12, 2017

"Feeling of belonging to the virtual environment" —
Marcela Nowak, May 10, 2017

Not always a good thing .

Remarks by the director of "Inception" —

Related material —

Today's sermon —

I prefer the cardinal interplay of doing and being,
as in Sinatra and in Nowak.

See also this  journal on that date
(September 24, 2014), also
Raiders of the Lost Chord,
and shortchord.org.

Do, be, do, be, do.

Or:  An Apple for Marcela

Scene from the college class Astronomy 101 in "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" (June 24, 2009) —

See also Big Apple in this journal as well as a film by the artist from
the "nubile" link above…

On the Religion of Scientism

Recently, believers in the religion of Scientism have become increasingly militant.  Christians, though seldom able, like Jesus, to love their enemy, might at least try, like Don Vito Corleone, to know their enemy.

“Examples are the stained-glass
windows of knowledge.” –Nabokov

Steven Pinker at The New York Times,
review of a new book by Natalie Angier,
a priestess of Scientism,
online today but dated May 27, 2007

Jesse Tisch at JBooks.com,
interview with Angier, undated, 2007

Harvey Blume at The Boston Globe,
interview with Angier, May 13, 2007

Marcela Valdes at Publishers Weekly,
interview with Angier, March 5, 2007

Angier at The New York Times,
“Confessions of a Lonely Atheist,”
Jan. 14, 2001

Angier at The American Scholar,
“My God Problem,” Spring 2004

For other recent background,
see the May 21 New Yorker.