August 12, 2009

Pay For It

Friends, in these awful times for the University of California I can’t point you anywhere better than “The Death of Socrates” by Thomas M. Disch. The munificent Andrew Carnegie-bot will let you read the first few pages here, and the broke-ass UCB library even has a copy.

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The Warm South

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.