Aims & Terms
Brief Table of Contents
Detailed Contents
The Battered Caravanserai
Overview
Tangents & Diversions
Core Beliefs
Types of Agnosticism
Agnostic Geometry
The Unconvinced
Ruby's Corner
Home page
Poetry
Prose
Ruby's talk at Barclay
THE DOUBLE REFUGE - 1. Starting Points
On Liberty
Refuge and Absinthe
Argentinian Wine
Ulysses
A Brave New Deal
Horizons
A Philosophy of Doubt
A Middle Position
Rivers of Change
Paradox
Family
Literature
Fault Lines
2. Butterflies Landing
Butterfly Landing
A Positive-Sum Philosophy
Freedom of Thought
Two Infinities
The Mysterious Heavens
Huxley's Definition
To Believe and Not to Believe
Sitting on Fences
A Literary Approach
On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility
Parma
Florence
Rome
3. The Sum of All Space
Third Spinning Rock from the Sun
Of Sand & Salt
Competing Explanations
Cities of God
Dogma and the Stars
The Chinese Sky
The Outer Reaches
The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere
Alas, Poor Yorick
4. Science & Mystery
Overview
Possible Explanations
Dante's Journey
Don't Forget the Miller
Summa Post Theologica
Primum Mobile
Bruno & Saint Francis
Secrets and Mysteries
Two Sides of the Fence
The Crystal Ball of Science
Man's Best Friend
5. A River Journey
Mountain Springs
A Chinese Interlude
Montaigne
French Currents
Riverboats & Sheep
Fry Day: the Atheist Fish
Prufrock
Rome 1: Sunset
Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...
Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods
Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad
Rushdie's Sea of Stories
Deep Sea Rescue
6. Three Little Words
Critical Distance
A Rough Chronology
Agnosticism Among the Isms
Suspensions
Henry Huxley
Meditations
The Bigger Picture
Locke's Double Key
Locked Into This World
Que Sais-je?
Teacher
Montaigne's Balance
Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot
Hegel's Dialectic
Whitman's Cosmos
Byron: Carrying Sail
Byron: Trickster of Change
Keats' Negative Capability
The English Garden of Sense
Tennyson's Ulysses
On Warnings
The Problem With Explanations
7. Señor Locke
The Gringo Takes Stock
Under the Umbrellas
Campfires
Beneath the Aonian Mount 1
Seeing Double
Train of Memory
Howling at the Moon
Beneath the Aonian Mount 2
In the Valley of Darién
Aura 1
The Tiny Pyramids of Ra
Señor Locke and the Jaguar
Aura 2
Cuba
Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear
Aura 4: Emanations
Aura 5: Progressions
The Floating World
8. At The Wild & Fog
A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan
Pope: A Mighty Maze
What the Dickens
Love Amid the Fog
God Among the Scientists
Hutton's Hammer
Jardine's Monkeys
Darwin's God
A Passage to Forster
From London to the Marabar Caves
9. Almost Existential
Poor, Bare, Forked
Between the Flippers
Doctors of Revolt
In the Shadow of Borges
The Status Quo
Hitler's Perfect World
Ontology Precedes Epistemology
The Permeable Self
Starbucking
Cloud Illusions
Petals
10. The Mermaid
The Epic Heroine
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Miller
Neptune
The Queen of Love
Beyond Alienation
Myth & Mysticism
11. Many Tribes
Overview
Six Versions of Infinity
The Creation of Outcasts
A Specific Version of Infinity
Nothing in Damascus
Myth and Religion
East & West
One God
Anti-Definitions
All Those Things the Wise Men Say
12. The Currents of Sumer
Introduction & Overview
Currents of History
The Whore
The Flood
The Exegete & the Philologist
Zero & Positive Sums
More Zero Sums
Gaming Out
The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad
Friendly Gods
Again, Minus 1 Plus 1
Rewind & Fast-Forward
Grace: The Most Positive Sum
Myths of Sin & Divinity
The Archaeology of Mystery
Post & Other Scripts
The Return of Enlil
13. Systems
Mere Religion?
Systems of Dread & Hope
Currents of Christianity
Abraham's Vice
Agora Phobia
Selective Grace
Exclusive Geographies
Christianity 2.0
Systems of Operation
Veils
Gods & Souls
The Scoundrels of Theology
Versions of Deity
Churches of Thought
Unlimited Agnosticism
"Open Your Heart" 1
"Open Your Heart" 2
"Open Your Heart" 3
14. Saint Francis
Rapt Angel
San Francisco
The Baby and the Bathwater
Keeping Baby
Believe It or Else
Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées
Pascal 2: Six Problems
Pascal 3: God & Infinity
Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa
Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino
Holy Dreamers
From Kerry to Crete
Canticle to the Stars
15. The Apple Merchant of Babylon
The Genealogy of Mortals
Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon
Eastern Gods
Golden Calves
The Holy Bin
Final Judgments
Aziz & the Crimson Cup
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2
In the Beginning
Adam and the Snake
The Journey West
16. The Priest's Dilemma
Rivers of God
Pinpoints of Light
The Golden Triangle
Nineveh
Que Sais-je?
Priest & Pastor
17. Believing in the Mystery
Introduction
The God That Has No Name
A Global Picture
18. Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt
The Rise of the Simurg
All the Letters Mixed Up
When Religions Collide
When Religions Come Together
Eruptions of the Sacred
The Return of the Simurg
Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle
The Two Adams
The Rock: Amina Sinai
The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters
The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah
19. Ars Moriendi
Teeing Off
Batter Up!
Sky Train
Dying by the Law
Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum
On Time
Like Flies to Wanton Boys
The Deadly Force of Chance
Living by the Numbers
Dying by the Numbers
The Readiness is All
Beyond Whose Bourne
On the Pageant Faded
THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages
Contents
Characters
Glossary A - F
Glossary G - Z
Maps
Story Lines
INTO THE NIGHT SKY
Times New Roman
The Aphrodisiac of Priests
Au Quartier Latin
In Ancient Babylon
Naptha & Saphaltus
Pinpoints of Light -
The Apple Business
In the Forests of the Night
London
Eastern Gods -
Golden Calves -
Spies
AMONG THE FABLES OF LIGHT
The Water Damsel
Prime Rhythm
At the Caffè
The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime
The Orb
The Actress
Equations
Di Parma
In Over My Head
A Great Fall
The Holy Bin -
Final Judgments -
Cultural Interference
3 Million Years
On Lactar8
Zadar & Qualini
The Swarm
Achilles
Aziz & the Crimson Cup -
Pietro Parlante
I, Claudia
Snakes & Ladders
The King's Horses
The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy
Nineveh -
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
Dance of the Seven Veils
In the Beginning -
Adam and the Snake -
Hunger & Lust
Que Sais-je? -
The Seventh Veil
The Journey West -
Priest & Pastor -
INFRACTIONS
The Hidden Star
Djàdao
Nuovaroma
Algoritmo
Nothing in Damascus
Life 2.0
Six and Seven
Two Priests
Beneath the Old Apple Tree
Natural Selection
Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime
Light
On Becoming Human
The Grim Brothers
Infraction 101
Clark Kent
The English Garden
GATHERINGS
The Enigma
The Academic
The Subterranean Homework Blues
J. Alfred
The Matterhorn
Kollarum Nights
The Professor from Palermo
Lingua
Franca
Protectorate
Talfar
The Bright and Swirling Sky
The Book of Fractals
On the Rebound
DOLCE AMORE
Quest
Güsfreude
Seduction
And Carbuncle His Eyes
Mirror, Mirror
Between the Sheets
Antiny the 23rd
The Flight of the Chronus
Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon
The Tarry Dot
Poetry in the Deep
Escape from Aatari Doom
The Best Laid Plans
The Blue Bubble
The Lady with the White Fangs
Spectra & Sentience
In the Contabri Bar
Venus & the Fly
A Tale of Two Worlds
The Librarian's Tale
On Meliflorium
Bar Songs
Spirals
FAR & NEAR
The Eggs of Cosmic Chance
Fra Sole
Di Firenze
My Own Personal Rheinmaiden
Constellations
Prester John
On Becoming Alien
The Mothership
The Blue Dreamers
Black Diamond Arts
The Little Merman
The Brave Little Tailor
Maria de Tondo
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Across the Street
Alicia
Alicia del Espejo
Spin the Bottle
Dreamer
BY CHANCE OR DESIGN
White Light on Fractal
The Nature of the Game
The Chancemasters of Die
Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics
The Stories They Told Themselves
At Sea
Still Waters
Virus
J. Alfred & the Great White
Hammerfest
The Völva
The Tyrian Corridor
At the Pangolin Gardens
The Bright Hills of Yunnan
The Ancient Mariner
Back to Black
Lindisfarne
The Monkey King
1825
GIRLS WHO
The Girl Who
Roma I
Roma II
Jason
Medea
Claudine de Montréal
Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine
All the Tea in China
The Waitresses of Chengdu
Probabilities
Lestatique
Madame Dupont
The Elkbalam
Molotova the Whip
Two Friends
IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM
All Shook Up
The Political Climate
Fax Americana
Proust in the Morning
Twilight of the Idols
The Storm Troopers Return
The Luxorium
Drive Our Ships to New Lands
As Loki Steers Us
Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion
Alien Extraction
Total Collapse
An Elusive Metaphor
Di Roma
The Anunnaki
EARTH 2.7
In the Field of Flowers
In the Seventh House
Screen Time
Dear Matthew
The French Maid
Les Mouches
At First Sight
First Contact
The Soul Star
La Vie en Orange
In the New Beginning
En Route to the Old Cafe
The Ties That Bind
The Bind That Flies
The Monster in the Manor
Rablanar & the OC
From the Battery
Au Bord de la Seine
The Baulomorphs Get It On
Rule 2.7
The Crazy Diamond
In the Ephemera Café
The Golden Hill
--
CRISIS 22 -- NOVELS
Contents
Fog & Shadow
Glaciers & Novels
All Over the Map
Imperialism & Colonialism
Pushkin's Brethren
METAPHORS
Extended Metaphor
Symbolic Landscapes
Russian Horses
Magic Black Horses
Nightingales 1
Rivers
Apples
The Road to Damascus
NATURE'S MIRROR
A Point of View
The Time is Out of Joint
Vicarious Experience
Mirrors
4 Types of Narrative
War & Peace
Napoléon Avait Cinq Cent Soldats
Dead Young Men
WAKING UP
With Open Eyes
The Ghost of Crises Past
Dream Vacation 2005
Rip Van Winkle
The Carrot
Caritas
Jovanka on the Bridge
The Algorithmics
Both In and Out of the Game
Political Modes of Being
Stoicism & Religion
CUNNING PLANS
Gogol & Co.
Two Novels and an Overcoat
Russians Souls
Literature & Subversion
PUPPET MASTERS
Southern Paradigms
Behind the Scenes
Unified Sensibilities
The Dangerous Years
The Eye of the Storm
The Dark Which Has No End
FEARLESS LEADERS
Overview
Fearless Leader of the Global South
Golden Bridges
Exceptionalism I
Exceptionalism II
FICTION & POETRY
Smithers Goes to Moscow
The Tao of Putin
Our Lady of the Harbour
AD / BC
Short Fiction
Short Fiction (Contents)
Uno, Due, Tre
Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori
- 2. Outskirts
Nothing in Damascus
Transparently Multicultural
An English Department on Fallar Discordia
Let Me Be Thy Choir
The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction
- 2: Eat, Play, Leave
Tarry Doom
The Dance of the Seven Veils
Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre
- 2: The Scholar
- 3: The Third Act
The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis
- 2 : Begin at the Beginning
- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
- 4: Again, In the Beginning
The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia
- 2: Il Giardino Inglese
- 3: Second Base
The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy
- 2: Trumpet
- 3: Doom
Poetry
Poetry (Contents)
The 19th Hole
That Undiscovered Country
Star Struck
Cosmic Writ
Petits Poèmes en Prose
Travel
La Bellezza
Addictions
Techno Buzz
Working the Traps
Letting Go
Literary Criticism
College English
Contents
Higher Learning
Essay Structure
Writing Tips & Conventions
Outlines
Literary Analysis: Six Categories
1: Space
-- Whitman
-- The Falling Girl
2: Time
-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five
-- Timelines
-- Sci & Fi
3: Character
-- States of Mind
-- Insanity
4: Relationship
-- Moulin Rouge!
-- Romance
5: Theme
-- Paint It Black
-- Sonnet 116
6. Style
-- A-N
-- O-Z
-- The Epic
-- Irony
Six Categories In Black Robe
Black Robe Context
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME
Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)
THE QUIET AMERICAN
QA Context
QA Interview & Article
QA Sample Essay
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
YD Context
YD Sukarno's Year
YD Essay & Article
YD A Tricky Narrative
Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions
-- Sex Trade & Orientalism
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
16 Rhetorical Strategies
Definition
-- Lord of War
-- Mad Men
-- Twain & Gore
-- Gandhi
Calvino
-- Atwood
In Court
Samples
Mad Men: Cox
MM: Notes
MM: Texts
Music Description
Music Terms A-L
Music Terms M-Z
Boardwork
About Me
About Me (Contents)
1960 - 1980
1980 - 2000
2000 - 2020
1980s Asia
Intro, Map, & Contents
Japan
Korea & Taiwan
Yangshao & Dali
Kunming to Kashgar
The Philippines
Thailand
India
Travel & Art Photos
Photos (Places & Art)
Paris, 2010 (photos)
Mexico (Photos)
Croatia & Slovenia
Ireland
Vancouver
Golf Courses in B.C.
Athens
Russian Spires
Salta & Iguazú
Taormina to Turin
Rome: About Town
From Mallorca to Madrid
Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria
Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife
Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone
Florence: the Sacred & the Profane
Pisa: Towers & Triptychs
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet
Home
Aims & Terms
Brief Table of Contents
Detailed Contents
The Battered Caravanserai
Overview
Tangents & Diversions
Core Beliefs
Types of Agnosticism
Agnostic Geometry
The Unconvinced
Ruby's Corner
Home page
Poetry
Prose
Ruby's talk at Barclay
THE DOUBLE REFUGE - 1. Starting Points
On Liberty
Refuge and Absinthe
Argentinian Wine
Ulysses
A Brave New Deal
Horizons
A Philosophy of Doubt
A Middle Position
Rivers of Change
Paradox
Family
Literature
Fault Lines
2. Butterflies Landing
Butterfly Landing
A Positive-Sum Philosophy
Freedom of Thought
Two Infinities
The Mysterious Heavens
Huxley's Definition
To Believe and Not to Believe
Sitting on Fences
A Literary Approach
On Nightingales and Unified Sensibility
Parma
Florence
Rome
3. The Sum of All Space
Third Spinning Rock from the Sun
Of Sand & Salt
Competing Explanations
Cities of God
Dogma and the Stars
The Chinese Sky
The Outer Reaches
The Unknown Arcs of a Sphere
Alas, Poor Yorick
4. Science & Mystery
Overview
Possible Explanations
Dante's Journey
Don't Forget the Miller
Summa Post Theologica
Primum Mobile
Bruno & Saint Francis
Secrets and Mysteries
Two Sides of the Fence
The Crystal Ball of Science
Man's Best Friend
5. A River Journey
Mountain Springs
A Chinese Interlude
Montaigne
French Currents
Riverboats & Sheep
Fry Day: the Atheist Fish
Prufrock
Rome 1: Sunset
Rome 2: Odysseus, Prufrock...
Rome 3: The Eye of the Gods
Heraclitus: Athens & Allahabad
Rushdie's Sea of Stories
Deep Sea Rescue
6. Three Little Words
Critical Distance
A Rough Chronology
Agnosticism Among the Isms
Suspensions
Henry Huxley
Meditations
The Bigger Picture
Locke's Double Key
Locked Into This World
Que Sais-je?
Teacher
Montaigne's Balance
Pyrrho's Equilibrium & Zhuangzi's Pivot
Hegel's Dialectic
Whitman's Cosmos
Byron: Carrying Sail
Byron: Trickster of Change
Keats' Negative Capability
The English Garden of Sense
Tennyson's Ulysses
On Warnings
The Problem With Explanations
7. Señor Locke
The Gringo Takes Stock
Under the Umbrellas
Campfires
Beneath the Aonian Mount 1
Seeing Double
Train of Memory
Howling at the Moon
Beneath the Aonian Mount 2
In the Valley of Darién
Aura 1
The Tiny Pyramids of Ra
Señor Locke and the Jaguar
Aura 2
Cuba
Aura 3: Inside Van Gogh's Ear
Aura 4: Emanations
Aura 5: Progressions
The Floating World
8. At The Wild & Fog
A Misty Maze, But Not Without A Plan
Pope: A Mighty Maze
What the Dickens
Love Amid the Fog
God Among the Scientists
Hutton's Hammer
Jardine's Monkeys
Darwin's God
A Passage to Forster
From London to the Marabar Caves
9. Almost Existential
Poor, Bare, Forked
Between the Flippers
Doctors of Revolt
In the Shadow of Borges
The Status Quo
Hitler's Perfect World
Ontology Precedes Epistemology
The Permeable Self
Starbucking
Cloud Illusions
Petals
10. The Mermaid
The Epic Heroine
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Miller
Neptune
The Queen of Love
Beyond Alienation
Myth & Mysticism
11. Many Tribes
Overview
Six Versions of Infinity
The Creation of Outcasts
A Specific Version of Infinity
Nothing in Damascus
Myth and Religion
East & West
One God
Anti-Definitions
All Those Things the Wise Men Say
12. The Currents of Sumer
Introduction & Overview
Currents of History
The Whore
The Flood
The Exegete & the Philologist
Zero & Positive Sums
More Zero Sums
Gaming Out
The Bounty of Sumer & Akkad
Friendly Gods
Again, Minus 1 Plus 1
Rewind & Fast-Forward
Grace: The Most Positive Sum
Myths of Sin & Divinity
The Archaeology of Mystery
Post & Other Scripts
The Return of Enlil
13. Systems
Mere Religion?
Systems of Dread & Hope
Currents of Christianity
Abraham's Vice
Agora Phobia
Selective Grace
Exclusive Geographies
Christianity 2.0
Systems of Operation
Veils
Gods & Souls
The Scoundrels of Theology
Versions of Deity
Churches of Thought
Unlimited Agnosticism
"Open Your Heart" 1
"Open Your Heart" 2
"Open Your Heart" 3
14. Saint Francis
Rapt Angel
San Francisco
The Baby and the Bathwater
Keeping Baby
Believe It or Else
Pascal's Wager 1: Pensées
Pascal 2: Six Problems
Pascal 3: God & Infinity
Pascal 4: Zhuangzi in Tipasa
Pascal 5: The Cosmic Casino
Holy Dreamers
From Kerry to Crete
Canticle to the Stars
15. The Apple Merchant of Babylon
The Genealogy of Mortals
Moses & the Apple Merchants of Babylon
Eastern Gods
Golden Calves
The Holy Bin
Final Judgments
Aziz & the Crimson Cup
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 1
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon 2
In the Beginning
Adam and the Snake
The Journey West
16. The Priest's Dilemma
Rivers of God
Pinpoints of Light
The Golden Triangle
Nineveh
Que Sais-je?
Priest & Pastor
17. Believing in the Mystery
Introduction
The God That Has No Name
A Global Picture
18. Rushdie: The Fiction of Doubt
The Rise of the Simurg
All the Letters Mixed Up
When Religions Collide
When Religions Come Together
Eruptions of the Sacred
The Return of the Simurg
Iconoclasts: Flapping Eagle
The Two Adams
The Rock: Amina Sinai
The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters
The Flight of Angels: Gabriel and Allelujah
19. Ars Moriendi
Teeing Off
Batter Up!
Sky Train
Dying by the Law
Post Scriptum, Post Mortem, Agnosticum
On Time
Like Flies to Wanton Boys
The Deadly Force of Chance
Living by the Numbers
Dying by the Numbers
The Readiness is All
Beyond Whose Bourne
On the Pageant Faded
THE FRACTAL HEART - Introductory Pages
Contents
Characters
Glossary A - F
Glossary G - Z
Maps
Story Lines
INTO THE NIGHT SKY
Times New Roman
The Aphrodisiac of Priests
Au Quartier Latin
In Ancient Babylon
Naptha & Saphaltus
Pinpoints of Light -
The Apple Business
In the Forests of the Night
London
Eastern Gods -
Golden Calves -
Spies
AMONG THE FABLES OF LIGHT
The Water Damsel
Prime Rhythm
At the Caffè
The Ascendancy of Baulis Prime
The Orb
The Actress
Equations
Di Parma
In Over My Head
A Great Fall
The Holy Bin -
Final Judgments -
Cultural Interference
3 Million Years
On Lactar8
Zadar & Qualini
The Swarm
Achilles
Aziz & the Crimson Cup -
Pietro Parlante
I, Claudia
Snakes & Ladders
The King's Horses
The Finest Ear-Muffs Money Can Buy
Nineveh -
The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
Dance of the Seven Veils
In the Beginning -
Adam and the Snake -
Hunger & Lust
Que Sais-je? -
The Seventh Veil
The Journey West -
Priest & Pastor -
INFRACTIONS
The Hidden Star
Djàdao
Nuovaroma
Algoritmo
Nothing in Damascus
Life 2.0
Six and Seven
Two Priests
Beneath the Old Apple Tree
Natural Selection
Dinner Guests from Baulis Prime
Light
On Becoming Human
The Grim Brothers
Infraction 101
Clark Kent
The English Garden
GATHERINGS
The Enigma
The Academic
The Subterranean Homework Blues
J. Alfred
The Matterhorn
Kollarum Nights
The Professor from Palermo
Lingua
Franca
Protectorate
Talfar
The Bright and Swirling Sky
The Book of Fractals
On the Rebound
DOLCE AMORE
Quest
Güsfreude
Seduction
And Carbuncle His Eyes
Mirror, Mirror
Between the Sheets
Antiny the 23rd
The Flight of the Chronus
Antiny & the Wizard Ship of Albinon
The Tarry Dot
Poetry in the Deep
Escape from Aatari Doom
The Best Laid Plans
The Blue Bubble
The Lady with the White Fangs
Spectra & Sentience
In the Contabri Bar
Venus & the Fly
A Tale of Two Worlds
The Librarian's Tale
On Meliflorium
Bar Songs
Spirals
FAR & NEAR
The Eggs of Cosmic Chance
Fra Sole
Di Firenze
My Own Personal Rheinmaiden
Constellations
Prester John
On Becoming Alien
The Mothership
The Blue Dreamers
Black Diamond Arts
The Little Merman
The Brave Little Tailor
Maria de Tondo
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Across the Street
Alicia
Alicia del Espejo
Spin the Bottle
Dreamer
BY CHANCE OR DESIGN
White Light on Fractal
The Nature of the Game
The Chancemasters of Die
Fractal Masters & Fractal Mystics
The Stories They Told Themselves
At Sea
Still Waters
Virus
J. Alfred & the Great White
Hammerfest
The Völva
The Tyrian Corridor
At the Pangolin Gardens
The Bright Hills of Yunnan
The Ancient Mariner
Back to Black
Lindisfarne
The Monkey King
1825
GIRLS WHO
The Girl Who
Roma I
Roma II
Jason
Medea
Claudine de Montréal
Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine
All the Tea in China
The Waitresses of Chengdu
Probabilities
Lestatique
Madame Dupont
The Elkbalam
Molotova the Whip
Two Friends
IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF DOOM
All Shook Up
The Political Climate
Fax Americana
Proust in the Morning
Twilight of the Idols
The Storm Troopers Return
The Luxorium
Drive Our Ships to New Lands
As Loki Steers Us
Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion
Alien Extraction
Total Collapse
An Elusive Metaphor
Di Roma
The Anunnaki
EARTH 2.7
In the Field of Flowers
In the Seventh House
Screen Time
Dear Matthew
The French Maid
Les Mouches
At First Sight
First Contact
The Soul Star
La Vie en Orange
In the New Beginning
En Route to the Old Cafe
The Ties That Bind
The Bind That Flies
The Monster in the Manor
Rablanar & the OC
From the Battery
Au Bord de la Seine
The Baulomorphs Get It On
Rule 2.7
The Crazy Diamond
In the Ephemera Café
The Golden Hill
--
CRISIS 22 -- NOVELS
Contents
Fog & Shadow
Glaciers & Novels
All Over the Map
Imperialism & Colonialism
Pushkin's Brethren
METAPHORS
Extended Metaphor
Symbolic Landscapes
Russian Horses
Magic Black Horses
Nightingales 1
Rivers
Apples
The Road to Damascus
NATURE'S MIRROR
A Point of View
The Time is Out of Joint
Vicarious Experience
Mirrors
4 Types of Narrative
War & Peace
Napoléon Avait Cinq Cent Soldats
Dead Young Men
WAKING UP
With Open Eyes
The Ghost of Crises Past
Dream Vacation 2005
Rip Van Winkle
The Carrot
Caritas
Jovanka on the Bridge
The Algorithmics
Both In and Out of the Game
Political Modes of Being
Stoicism & Religion
CUNNING PLANS
Gogol & Co.
Two Novels and an Overcoat
Russians Souls
Literature & Subversion
PUPPET MASTERS
Southern Paradigms
Behind the Scenes
Unified Sensibilities
The Dangerous Years
The Eye of the Storm
The Dark Which Has No End
FEARLESS LEADERS
Overview
Fearless Leader of the Global South
Golden Bridges
Exceptionalism I
Exceptionalism II
FICTION & POETRY
Smithers Goes to Moscow
The Tao of Putin
Our Lady of the Harbour
AD / BC
Short Fiction
Short Fiction (Contents)
Uno, Due, Tre
Roman Holiday 1: Campo de' Fiori
- 2. Outskirts
Nothing in Damascus
Transparently Multicultural
An English Department on Fallar Discordia
Let Me Be Thy Choir
The Wine-Dark Sea 1: Seduction
- 2: Eat, Play, Leave
Tarry Doom
The Dance of the Seven Veils
Le Bijou 1: The Star of Montmartre
- 2: The Scholar
- 3: The Third Act
The Apple Merchant of Babylon 1: Genesis
- 2 : Begin at the Beginning
- 3: The Confused Astronomers of Babylon
- 4: Again, In the Beginning
The Blue-Eyed Sicilian 1: I, Claudia
- 2: Il Giardino Inglese
- 3: Second Base
The Reign of Error: 1. Prophecy
- 2: Trumpet
- 3: Doom
Poetry
Poetry (Contents)
The 19th Hole
That Undiscovered Country
Star Struck
Cosmic Writ
Petits Poèmes en Prose
Travel
La Bellezza
Addictions
Techno Buzz
Working the Traps
Letting Go
Literary Criticism
College English
Contents
Higher Learning
Essay Structure
Writing Tips & Conventions
Outlines
Literary Analysis: Six Categories
1: Space
-- Whitman
-- The Falling Girl
2: Time
-- Time in Slaughterhouse-Five
-- Timelines
-- Sci & Fi
3: Character
-- States of Mind
-- Insanity
4: Relationship
-- Moulin Rouge!
-- Romance
5: Theme
-- Paint It Black
-- Sonnet 116
6. Style
-- A-N
-- O-Z
-- The Epic
-- Irony
Six Categories In Black Robe
Black Robe Context
LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME
Colonialism & the Cold War (1109)
THE QUIET AMERICAN
QA Context
QA Interview & Article
QA Sample Essay
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
YD Context
YD Sukarno's Year
YD Essay & Article
YD A Tricky Narrative
Comparative Essays -- Betrayal and Good Intentions
-- Sex Trade & Orientalism
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
16 Rhetorical Strategies
Definition
-- Lord of War
-- Mad Men
-- Twain & Gore
-- Gandhi
Calvino
-- Atwood
In Court
Samples
Mad Men: Cox
MM: Notes
MM: Texts
Music Description
Music Terms A-L
Music Terms M-Z
Boardwork
About Me
About Me (Contents)
1960 - 1980
1980 - 2000
2000 - 2020
1980s Asia
Intro, Map, & Contents
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Kunming to Kashgar
The Philippines
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Photos (Places & Art)
Paris, 2010 (photos)
Mexico (Photos)
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Vancouver
Golf Courses in B.C.
Athens
Russian Spires
Salta & Iguazú
Taormina to Turin
Rome: About Town
From Mallorca to Madrid
Mesopotamia: from Sumer to Assyria
Egypt: Cats, Coffins, & the Afterlife
Roman Sculture: Dramas in Stone
Florence: the Sacred & the Profane
Pisa: Towers & Triptychs
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 1. from The British Museum
Hindu & Buddhist Art - 2. from Le Guimet
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