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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Review By Dan Geddes Many readers of The Holographic Universe will have doubted religion earlier in their lives, and so may be skeptical about spirituality in general. The Holographic Universe is one of those books th... More »
From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Review By Dan Geddes 5 January 2001 For most of its 800 pages From Dawn To Decadence is a triumph of historical survey. Barzun treats countless historical developments with grace and ... More »
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Review By Dan Geddes 1 January 2001 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale unabashedly places itself in the negative utopian tradition, and may actually herald the beginning of a new genre: the feminist n... More »
Claude Roget: Philosopher or Fraud? Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Works Discussed Claude Roget: Montmartre Mountebank by Louis Bloch Order Is Terror by Claude Roget Literature and Vacuum by Claude Roget “Uncommunicative Modalities In Roget’s Anti-T... More »
The Kabbalah of Money Rabbi Nilton Bonder Review By Dan Geddes I found the title misleading, insofar as the mystical connotation of Kabbalah were largely missing. I think this book could easily have been titled more within the Jewish tradition without being mi... More »
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand Review By Dan Geddes How Buildings Learn is an examination of buildings in time, as opposed to buildings as they are photographed for architectural magazines. Brand’s thesis is that buildings should be designed to accommo... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI—An academic conference, “Incest, Murder and Mutes in Faulkner’s Early Fiction” was held here last week to discuss an astonishing development in the history of Faulkner scholarship—the possible disco... More »
Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Works Picasso Blockhead Piece of Shit #2 Rhubarb Pie Gramophone Straight Red Line On Paper Nixon’s Mind “Genuine Forgeries” Final Days: Hair Piece Kinski’s Legacy WASHINGTON, DC—The most com... More »
WASHINGTON, DC—In an effort to rekindle interest in the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” television show, the ABC television network sponsored the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Man March last week in Washington, DC. ABC aired adver... More »
Cast of Characters (In Order of Appearance) King Willie The Slick Lady Hilarious, Wife of King Willie Sir Newt Gecko The Grand Inquisitor Prince Al The Bore Junior Bushleague Once upon a time in the United States of Amnesia lived a king called King Will... More »
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt Review By Dan Geddes 11 November 2000 Jacob Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy has achieved its now classic status because of the importance of its theses and its readability... More »
By Dan Geddes HOPE, ARKANSAS. Researchers for the future William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library yesterday visited Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope, Arkansas where they claimed to have found a “shred of decency” in the President’s boyhood bedroom.... More »