This morning I read a BBC article about South Korea's declining population. Korean women are said to be producing children at a rate of 0.72 per woman, the lowest rate in the world. Since it takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population (if you ignore immigration, which many wealthy countries receive), South Korea's … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
Rescuing the Future | Rising Housing Costs | But is the Condo explosion coming to an end?
....... we look like we're headed for some kind of spectacular multi-vehicle financial pile-up. Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing Reality | MacLeans Magazine on the Renters Revolt
.....for Canada’s property owners, the housing crisis is no crisis at all. The worse it gets, the more money they make.
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
Rescuing Fiction | The Last Interview and Other Conversations | Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Though it made him famous and brought him financial independence, Márquez said more than once that he'd grown to hate the book.
Rescuing Fiction | Rescuing the Future| Mark Elf | my choice for the most unforgettable paragraph ever written
...... I have killed seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-nine enemies of the Sixth German Reich for sure, and I have..........
Rescuing Fiction | the quotable Birdcatcher | Are there any people more misunderstood than those who are solitary?
..... he and I stared at one another. Two men who despised one other, both knowing how easy murder was in the midst of combat.....
Rescuing Fiction | Dombey & Son | Charles Dickens the magician
.......this is a King Lear story, but with a different ending.
Rescuing Fiction | Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes | the antidote for introverts and those on the spectrum who long to enter the social world
The problem for those of us who love sincerely, is that we so often fail, while those more callous and calculating so often succeed.
Alan Conrad 