Aesthetic Blasphemy

Patterned passages should be fallbacks with frequent excursions.

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become...

Intellectuals, hear!

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom-he fears a drunken poet may crack a joke that will take hold....

Oh but gravity is just a theory!

One gets the impression that science is to be a set of pat formulas to standard questions. "What makes it move,"...

The book has found me

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded...