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Sunday, September 17, 2017

SK8!

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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

"N" as in "NTEL"

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Friday Fotos, Sunday Edition: GVX 2016

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The Story of My Intellectual Life

In the early 1970s I discovered that “Kubla Khan” had a rich, marvelous, and fantastically symmetrical structure. I'd found myself intellectually. I knew what I was doing. I had a specific intellectual mission: to find the mechanisms behind “Kubla Khan.” As defined, that mission failed, and still has not been achieved some 40 odd years later.

It's like this: If you set out to hitch rides from New York City to, say, Los Angeles, and don't make it, well then your hitch-hike adventure is a failure. But if you end up on Mars instead, just what kind of failure is that? Yeah, you’re lost. Really really lost. But you’re lost on Mars! How cool is that!

Of course, it might not actually be Mars. It might just be an abandoned set on a studio back lot.

Who knows? Does it matter? It's been one hell of a journey so far.

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This work by William L. Benzon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at new-savanna.blogspot.com.

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