Monthly Archives: March 2021

dot product of Cupid’s arrows

Posted on Tuesday, 2021 March 09 by Anton

The backstory of Methuselah’s Children, by Heinlein, involves a foundation to promote human longevity. Among other activities it studies natural long-lifers, creating its research material by paying a bounty for marriages between people whose grandparents all lived 100 years or … Continue reading →

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Billy Budd

Posted on Monday, 2021 March 08 by Anton

Last night I watched Peter Ustinov’s adaptation (1962) of Herman Melville’s story Billy Budd. In 1797, a young merchant seaman is drafted onto a warship, where his sweet nature is admired by all except Claggart, the cruel master-at-arms, who resents … Continue reading →

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