Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

(Re)Mixed Messages And beyond even that - the eerie experience of finally finding in myriad ragtag phenomena an underlying psychic connection, as if I've at last flipped over the fabric that made them appear separate, and discovered long strands of embroidery thread linking one design with the next. Bonnie Friedman, Surrendering Oz ]

Soundbite Diner Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. C. G. Jung

Pieces De Resistance All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau or woman....

Logos Lego Borges… like Joyce…used universal culture as an instrument of p lay. Umberto Eco Borges And My Anxiety Of Influence

Aporetic Tikkun Olam It is the lucid vertigo of a language that is trying to redefine the world while it redefines itself in the full knowledge that, in an age that is still uncertain, the key to the revelation of the world can be found not in the straight line but only in the labyrinth. Umberto Eco A Portrait Of The Artist As Bachelor  

Thought Pivots A mammal swells and circles and lays him down. You and I have finished swelling; our circling periods are playing out, but we can still leave footprints in a trail whose end we do not know. Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. Annie Dillard For The Time Being

Clips Up For Grabs There’s something in me that just wants to create dialogue.              David Mamet