http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/ Copyright 2008 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:11:37 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A fourteen year old girl living in Honeoye Falls is said to be the first person born without any inkling of the idea of history. Irene Dayton, who lives on Briar Patch Lane, may be the first of a new... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/02/last_lecture.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/02/last_lecture.html Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:11:37 -0500 It is impossible to historically narrate Christianity in a forward chronology. It is inspirational as a reflection, but impossible to begin, and impossible to tell as a story except as a kind of nostalgia, or a fairy tale. Christianity is... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/02/trains_are_cond.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/02/trains_are_cond.html Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:52:50 -0500 People like to talk about other people becoming aware of their own mortality. But they never acknowledge what happens to themselves when such a consideration occurs. And the reason for this is that each case it seems is a very... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/01/fear_of_the_dea.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2007/01/fear_of_the_dea.html Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:51:52 -0500 Very shortly (mere minutes) after they were created, and placed on the cookie tin in readiness for the parade, I mean the box of cookies, to bring exclamation and smiles to the faces of certain relatives on Christmas Eve,... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/12/seasons_greetin_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/12/seasons_greetin_1.html Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:15:29 -0500 People who claim to believe in reason are notorious for not being able to apply reason. It’s as if they didn’t need to bother, in a kind of “do as I say, not as I do,” atmosphere. They simply see... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/12/interior_monolo.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/12/interior_monolo.html Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:30:50 -0500 People’s theories, about pretty much everything, are pretty much always wrong. But the question is not really why are people such incompetent theory-makers. The question is why do they make them at all? What is remarkable is not the poor... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/11/everybody_loves.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/11/everybody_loves.html Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:03:41 -0500 I am always wondering why people don’t just flip out, or start staring into empty space and then erupt in long screams, over the existential situation they are in. You wonder what people are doing with themselves during the gaps,... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/11/skyway_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/11/skyway_1.html Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:08:29 -0500 In his by now chronic raspy voice, Bill droned on: “At all levels of government hearings the question always is whether the scandalous behavior being investigated is traceable to a a few bad apples, or is systemic. However,” he... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/at_montys_with_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/at_montys_with_1.html Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:41:02 -0500 Hitting is contagious. He is I will tell you one of the most likable, if not the most likable, players in the game today. And that will stop the bleeding. Verlander hasn’t been fair to the Big Hurt tonight, he’s... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/sports_lingo_10.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/sports_lingo_10.html Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:32:09 -0500 " By comparing the genomic sequences of an ever-increasing number of organisms, we are now uncovering how our bodies came to be the way they are. Evolution, it seems, is a tale of détente: The need to adapt to changing... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/the_devil_is_li.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/10/the_devil_is_li.html Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:18:41 -0500 "I am the genius of myself, the poietes who composes the sentences I speak and the actions I take." Finite and Infinite Games, James. P. Carse “Now who shall say I have not done an original thing!” Edgar Allen Poe... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/what_never_happ_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/what_never_happ_1.html Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:14:42 -0500 Initially, when Red Rick told me he couldn’t afford to go to the Bob Dylan Show, at Frontier Field, I was just a little taken aback, kind of snubbed I guess, since when I heard Bob Dylan was coming to... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/you_can_hang_ba_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/you_can_hang_ba_1.html Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:12:54 -0500 “Consciousness is a specific ability, a talent; an apparatus for thought attached mysteriously to a person that not only has nothing to do with that person’s intelligence, but is devoted to undermining it, insofar as it can make them aware... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/new_definition_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/09/new_definition_1.html Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:14:23 -0500 Though it’s rewards are at best ironic, and the pay rather negligible, I have accepted the position as a “Substitute Guest Author”, for Barnes & Noble Bookstores. I hadn’t even realised such a position existed, or that in fact I... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/08/my_new_job.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/08/my_new_job.html Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:20:36 -0500 I’d like to say that the reason I am concerned that my writings are unpublished, and that I am not, consequently, a player in the literary world, is not that I feel the world is being deprived of the content... http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/07/the_complicatio_1.html http://www.antigeist.com/mortimer/archives/2006/07/the_complicatio_1.html Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:37:40 -0500