by Jan Bear | Nov 4, 2003 | Literary Art, Uncategorized
I enjoy bloggers with humor, who find profundity in daily events, who read the ingredients on the Can ‘O’ Rhetoric that is served up on every side. Especially good at this is James Lileks. He finds meaning in the great icons—architecture, publishing,...
by Jan Bear | Nov 2, 2003 | Reading, Uncategorized
Philip Pullman’s trilogy, His Dark Materials, has spurred thoughts about fascism and how it shows itself today, and perhaps tomorrow. The point of the trilogy is that the entire human tradition of good and evil has been turned upside down. God is evil; Satan is...
by Jan Bear | Oct 29, 2003 | Literary Art
This is an experiment, to find out if I have anything to say. I’m a middle-aged writer and editor with two teen-agers and a novel on the way. Mocha is a year-old Lab puppy and Thief of Socks. In religion, I’m Eastern Orthodox; in politics mostly...