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Looking & Acting Bad

January 18, 2022January 17, 2022 ~ cafebedouin

"“Do you want material that looks bad before it acts bad, like shingles or clapboard, or one that acts bad long before it looks bad, like vinyl siding? A whole philosophy of maintenance falls one way or the other with the answer.”-Stewart Brand, "How Buildings Learn." True of maintenance, true of life. In 1997, the … Continue reading Looking & Acting Bad

Possessed by Demons or Become Your Own?

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 ~ cafebedouin

It is of course famously difficult to say exactly what happens in [Philip K Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch], because the essential question that the major characters have is always: What is actually happening? But at least one major potential timeline, perhaps the most likely timeline, tells a story like this: Palmer Eldritch … Continue reading Possessed by Demons or Become Your Own?

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