Among novelists, the phenomenon of the character who resists the author's intentions is well known. This is one of the best examples in fiction.
Rescuing Reality | The Tariff War | What’s going on?
........I sense many people silently asking themselves, "What's going on?"
Belly Full: Exploring Caribbean cuisine through 11 fundamental ingredients and over 100 recipes
My daughter Lesley's recipes inspire ..... on page after delicious page.
America | What now?
Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing Fiction | Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank | how it contains one of the greatest scenes ever written
The scene where Heidegger comes for a meeting with the commandant at Auschwitz ranks.....as one of the greatest conversation scenes in literature.
Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
Rescuing History and trying to rescue the Future | What Happened when the U.S. failed to prosecute an insurrectionist Ex-president
If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?
Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
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