This is clipped from a book I wrote in 1988 — a book I really need to write anew. It’s an epistolary novel, so the writing is kind of affected. I expect you can worry your way through it. “Madness,” as the term is used here, is an attempt to claim, as knowledge, a proposition […]
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: ‘Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home […]
I wrote this a dozen years ago, and I’ve posted it here before. It’s apposite today, because, to all indications, we are all about to be involuntarily inducted into a cannibal cult. My question for you: Will you choose to be devoured by your neighbors, or will you elect to devour them instead? –GSS What […]
A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Madre de dios…!” Mrs. Marquez said that, and it seemed a fair estimate to me. Everywhere we looked in the overlit room we saw things of wonder and beauty and uncontested menace. Despite the din, I heard myself groan, and I wasn’t utterly sure I’d done the right thing. Walking […]
I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical/political/literary home on the web. The planned strike of our undocumented friends has come and gone, but the underlying idea — a strike against the looters on June 1st — still resonates with me. What say you? Is this […]
I had a great week. That’s not something I get to say all the time — rarely more than fifty times a year. The truth is, most of the time I feel like an undocumented refugee from a forgotten country known as A Different Way Of Thinking. I don’t feel any huge bond of commonality […]
This is the official launch of SplendorQuest.com, the official first post. I’m cross-posting it at BloodhoundBlog, as well. Fair warning: This post is comprised of an extract from my novel, The Unfallen. After the “more” tag, you will be exposed to romantic fiction involving sexually playful adults engaged in actual life-like grown-up encounters. If you’re […]
We’re going to fire up SplendorQuest.com full-bore this week. For now it’s nothing, no need to link to it. But if you’ve ever done a whois on any one of our domains, you will have seen that SplendorQuest.com lives at the top of everything. I’ve talked about Splendor a lot at BloodhoundBlog. It’s the defining […]
kiss me your glory i kiss you my joy kiss me your giggling girlishness i kiss you my mannish boy kiss me your tickling i kiss you my laughter kiss me your before your before your before i kiss you my ever after kiss me your promise i kiss you my prayer kiss me your […]
[I wrote this in March of 2007. I’m revisiting it now because it fits so well with the essay I wrote last night about honesty. At just about the same time I wrote this post, I penned an essay about an idea I call The Implied Accusation — the elephant in the room. I lucked […]
Teri Lussier sent me this clip as a celebration of Unchained in Orlando: That’s sweet, but I always think of this when I think of lullabies: And that’s so brutal that it’s almost unimaginably brutal — until you look at this: That’s the real face of war. Not well-turned-out soldiers with their bootlaces smartly tied, […]
[I wrote this at Easter in 2003, just short of five years ago. –GSS] Tomorrow is Easter, and all good Catholics will go to Mass. In our parish, every Mass will be packed, and there will be overflow Masses in the school cafeteria. But Catholic or not, Easter calls our attention to Jesus Christ Superstar, […]
I said: “The social agenda, it would seem, is to make the world safe for high-schoolish exclusion.” And: “I don’t think there is anything good about indulging and encouraging the worst in people.” And: “Here is the unstated moral principle undergirding ‘realweenie’: It is a moral good for like-minded people to get together to chortle […]
Is anyone going? We may go to Sell-a-Bration next year, but the NAR convention has never appealed to me. The invitations have been steadily more amusing, though: “You will not either get malaria!” I’m kinda thinking it will be less than a full house… Technorati Tags: real estate marketing
“I had a New Year’s play date with my favorite puppy. I’m exhuasted – but I smell like puppy,”The seven rules of The Church of Splendor are mental- and moral-management strategies for an appropriately-prioritized anarchist egoist life – that being mine. You’re free to make free with them: I don’t go to your church. I am […]