I saw that some unlucky fellow stumbled on my blog by typing into Google, “What does Montag mean when he tells Mildred ‘We ne...

Imagine going home one day to find an extra door in your house. Perhaps, on your second floor, there were two doors. Now there are three. Wh...

  I found a quote from Nabokov's Strong Opinions that more or less confirms what I speculated on in my earlier post (You can fin...

                 I’ve been reading Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, translated most skillfully by William Weaver. It’s t...

            There are so many limitations to how well you can know someone. You can be married to another for twenty years, wake up every...

I purchased a copy of Key Selections from The World as Will and Representation and Other Writings , edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher. I actual...

         I finished Fahrenheit 451 and, experiencing that pleasantly sad, familiar feeling of having finished an excellent book, I was pleas...