Year: 2009
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Forever. Forever Ever. Forever Ever?
The concept of forever is a funny one. We all know that nothing lasts forever. When first falling in love – and in the special rare cases where it lasts, for several decades afterward – we have the gut feeling that it will last forever. Marriage, if we go down that road, makes this explicit.…
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Book Review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is an extremely bleak tale about a father and son’s struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. That’s about all there is to it. But between the lines of the glaringly minimalistic prose are themes of love, hope, morality, and even a bit of faith. This is not an uplifting book; it’s clear…
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If I Had a Million Dollars
Things I’d do if I won a million dollars: Get a new vacuum. My vacuum sucks. Wait, no, it doesn’t suck; it blows. No…it…it’s not a good vacuum OK?? Write random formulas and crudely drawn pictures of the end of the world all over my walls, to simulate being an insane scientist in a bad…
