Page 2 - Ruminations

Ruminations

1. Awake!
2. Three flights of linguistic fancy
3. The tool and its fool
4. Seismic reaction
5. Cerebral software
6. Three observations about fascism
7. Historicizing Holmes
8. The love bomb
9. Five odd symmetries
10. Freud and Rilke: exorcism rejected
11. Here is thy sting: three mortal ironies
12. Now and Venn
13. “Sufficiently advanced”
14. Nostalgia and its discontents
15. Change and wisdom
16. Homo sapiens deconstructed
17. Three psychological parallels
18. Life, limb and property
19. National Victims Day
20. Parallel lines—and their meeting
21. Four states of awareness and objectivity
22. Buoyancy and the crutch
23. Logic versus science and theology
24. Three mental misconceptions
25. Mandala confusion
26. The uses of transmogrification
27. Seven odd resemblances
28. Perils of monoculture
29. The invisibles
30. Neoteny’s bell curve
31. Branding irony
32. Mysteria and the movies
33. Triplicities
34. Demonic Domenico
35. Unannounced merger
36. Unintended consequences: three observations
37. Affliction and infliction
38. Existentialism: the enemies within
39. The uphill road
40. Three Jewish jokes