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Texts

A media memory palace; a place to put oddments and scraps; a notebook of cuts and slices, protected under fair use.

1
Boulder Poems
By Ford, Frank Bernard
A small collection of poems about Boulder, CO.
Monday, November 12, 2001
8 sections.
2
Connecting Light
By Ford, Frank Bernard
A collection of poems by Frank B. Ford Originally from 1990
63 sections.
3
Who Cares?
By Ford, Frank Bernard
Stories mercifully short Originally from 1990
17 sections.
4
Bartleby the Scrivener
By Melville, Herman
A Story of Wall Street. Illustrated with contemporary photographs by Paul Ford.
Tuesday, January 25, 2000
5
Thomas Hardy, Roman Ruins, Casterbridge
By ThomasHardy
A section from The Mayor of Casterbridge that summarizes Hardy's historical vision - a mix of architectural, archeological, and human history, which humans ignore to their ignorant doom or observe to their eternal sadness. The beginning of Chapter 11, typed in from the Penguin Edition.
Monday, November 27, 2000
6
Lapham, Utopia
By Lapham, Lewis
A virtuouso lambast of consumption culture from Lewis Lapham.
Wednesday, November 22, 2000
7
Rub it and Love it
Cookery and love, love, love
Thursday, November 2, 2000
8
Documents Indicate...
Ford motor company has damaged my brand equity, so I'm suing. This is, for those who have a little trouble with the concept and have seen fit to send me death threats, a joke.
Thursday, November 2, 2000
9
PAC Evil
By Hightower, Jim
Jim Hightower encapsulates the horror of big money politics in a few paragraphs.
Thursday, November 30, 2000
10
What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative?
An extremely clear definition, from Booknotes, 1994
Monday, November 27, 2000
11
3 Kinds of Power
By JohnKennethGalbraith
From John Kenneth Galbraith's The Anatomy of Power, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 4-6.
Monday, November 27, 2000
12
The Atomistic Machine View of the World
By RichardCLewontin
R. C. Lewontin proposes a third approach to analysis.
Sunday, January 28, 2001
13
The Book of Joshua, Chapter 10
By YHWH
The sun stands still in the sky.
Monday, February 19, 2001
14
Jealousy and Literature
By PetervanSommers
Pet Van Sommers explains his feelings about analyzing jealousy through the lens of literature; from his 1988 book Jealousy.
Sunday, March 18, 2001
15
George Washington as seen by William Carlos Williams
By Carlos Williams, William
From “George Washington” in In the American Grain, a collection of essays by William Carlos Williams,  © 1933, (pp 142-144).
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
16
Elegy
By JorgeLuisBorges
This poem hung on my wall for years, until I began to look a little like it.
Friday, June 22, 2001
17
From the Universal Self-Instructor of 1883
It is rude to stare at ladies in the street.
Friday, February 8, 2002
18
The Fiddler of Dooney
By W.B. Yeats
Folk dance like a wave of the sea.
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
19
Montaigne's Internet Business Plan
Montaigne - actually his father - predicts HotJobs.com, 430 years before an IPO.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
20
Benjamin Franklin on Business Ethics
When in doubt, sleep on the floor and drink water.
Thursday, October 3, 2002
21
Benjamin Franklin on Moral Perfection
Practical advice on obtaining a perfectly moral bearing. From his autobiography.
Friday, October 4, 2002
22
My Financial Career
By Leacock, Stephen
A classic from 1910.
Thursday, January 23, 2003
23
Cooking of Eggs
The table of contents from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Mrs. S. T. Rorer.
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
24
Wm. Gibson on Terrorism
Author William Gibson nearly blows up the world.
Monday, February 24, 2003
25
Message to the Republican Mob
By ROwens
Rap by a Democratic Congressman from New York, originally published in the Congressional Record, 23 July, 2002.
Tuesday, April 22, 2003


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