Essays

The Allegory of the Cake

As long as they are over there, the modern person, especially the intellectual, can accept mystical experiences, which I prefer to call “more reality.”

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Whirlpools in the Ocean of All

An imperfect allegory about perception and lived experience during a time of surface turbulence.

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AI is a Mirror

There is understandable fear around the takeover of AI.

And . . .

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Woman with brown hair and pink shirt lying on her stomach, talking on a red rotary phone in a room with bookshelves.

Longing, the Beloved, and the Telephone

I recently taught Dorothy Parker’s hilarious paean to longing: “A Telephone Call” . . .

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More essays in the Threshold.