Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years' blogging: I don't read a whole lot of poetry. Not that I have anything against poetry or poets. It's just that my attention normally … [Read more...]
“12 Rules for Life” – Thoughts on Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Random House, 2018. Ever since reading Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life a few months ago, I've considered writing a post on it. I've held back. What do you say about a book so rich, so packed with ideas--not necessarily good … [Read more...]
Immanuel Velikovsky – “Worlds in Collision,” 68 Years Later
An ancient visit by an alien star, runs the headline in the Health & Science section of The Week magazine (April 13, 2018); and the story begins: "A wandering binary star sideswiped the solar system some 70,000 years ago, knocking dozens of far-flung comets and asteroids into unusual orbits. … [Read more...]
Giants, Fairy Tales, and Erich von Däniken
“ ‘Giants’ keep cropping up in all parts of the globe: in the mythology of East and West, in the sagas of Tiahuanaco and the epics of the Eskimos. ‘Giants’ haunt the pages of almost all ancient books. So they must have existed.” —Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods “There aren’t any such … [Read more...]
Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator – The Kabbalist and the Genocide (Part 2)
Once upon a time, according to the Jewish mystics known as Kabbalists, there existed a system of worlds--shall we call it a universe?--very much like our own, yet not the one we know today. One day--but back then there were no "days," no time as we know it, because sun and moon and everything … [Read more...]
