David Given Schwarm

The Presence Process – A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness by Michael Brown My rating: 2 of 5 stars Ugh. This was recommended to me by someone who had not actually read the book–which ALWAYS is a bad sign. The general spiritual principles described are not new, the others reflections are rather selfish and self-seeking.…

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Holy Cow! This is an absolutely amazing book–an academic doing a close read of a poem is the premise, but what unfolds is the universe in a bottle. Nabokov is simply showing off and it is a joy to watch the fireworks–so much literary…

one deplores the superfluous ejaculation in the second line introduced there only to coagulate the caesura

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