The week before last I blogged on “Peanuts.” Not the most august subject, I know. But there’s something about that comic strip that haunts me, that continues to mystify me. So I’m returning to it today. In my earlier post, I wrote that for the last three decades of the strip’s existence the … [Read more...]
Gore Vidal and the UFOs
“Stars fell to earth in a blaze of light, and where they fell, monsters were born, hideous and blind.” —Gore Vidal, Messiah Did Gore Vidal believe in UFOs? That was the question I asked myself, with some excitement, as a teen-age “UFO investigator” reading Vidal’s 1954 novel Messiah. This … [Read more...]
Pictures from the Regulator Reading
I'm taking a break this week from my regular postings. My friend Karen Thornburg has sent me some wonderful photos from my February 10 reading at the Regulator Bookshop, on Ninth Street in Durham, NC, and today I'd like to feature those pictures. Karen is the mother of Adrian Thornburg, who … [Read more...]
Peanuts Comic – A Lesson From Sally Brown
For my birthday last November, my wife bought me a book called Peanuts Treasury, a collection of weekday and Sunday strips from Peanuts’ glory days. I’ve read them all by now. Yet I keep the book beside me, often when I eat, dipping into it and rereading at random. It reminds me what an … [Read more...]
Freud, Jung, Lindbergh – “More Things In Heaven and Earth …”
A friend sends the following comment on the story of Jung and Lindbergh and the UFOs, which I talked about in my last post: “I imagine Jung was very aware that he was conversing with an aviator, not a psychologist, and moreover a person not likely to follow or grasp the approach Jung took to … [Read more...]
