an international art

Posted on Thursday, 2009 June 18 by Anton

In the opening scene of Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, a Hungarian Jew plays a Japanese impersonating a German, speaking English in Arabia.

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rejecting the cult

Posted on Monday, 2009 June 08 by Anton

Sheldon Richman (with help from Paddy Chayevsky) nails Memorial Day.

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polytopes

Posted on Sunday, 2009 June 07 by Anton

Dr. Richard Klitzing lost his webhost, so I took custody of his polytope pages.

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separated at germination?

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 June 03 by Anton

Okay, the mascot of OurWaterOurWorld isn’t quite as similar to Bob the Angry Flower as I thought, but still …

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what’s in a name?

Posted on Monday, 2009 June 01 by Anton

“You enjoyed Lost in Austen, didn’t you?”

“Sure. I also enjoy Austen in Lost.”

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life imitates embryonic blog-post

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 May 13 by Anton

Pillow brought home a little brown snake, about a foot long – the size of the biggest earthworms I’ve ever seen. I put it out in the grass, for the cycle to begin anew.

A few hours later, as I was composing the above in my head, I saw the same(?) snake in the living-room again, now dead from obvious trauma.

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Posted on Wednesday, 2009 May 13 by Anton

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