Author Archives: thormay

14. Why Grasshoppers Don’t Have A Problem

Posted on January 29, 2001 by thormay

If you think of the human men­tal sys­tem in terms com­pa­ra­ble to the oper­at­ing sys­tem of a com­puter, then there is a curi­ous incom­plete­ness about it. Of course the house­keep­ing func­tions, the bits that tell your body to breath and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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11. The Conundrum of Men and Women: Innovators & Imitators

Posted on May 14, 2000 by thormay

[related sto­ries: Gen­der Puz­zle / The Inside Track on Hap­pi­ness / Foun­tain of Youth / Let­ter to an Imag­i­nary Lady .. ] Yin and yang, the war­rior and nur­turer, hard and soft, strong and weak, men and women. How hard we tried to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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10. Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Posted on April 22, 2000 by thormay

We all dwell in an unsta­ble buzz of mol­e­cules. Some of these atomic tides have become sta­ble enough for a while, and recur­sive enough in their rela­tion­ships, to some­how gen­er­ate that sense of “I”, the iden­tity which allows us to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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5. The Art of Disproportion

Posted on December 19, 1998 by thormay

Every writer cre­ates a pat­tern from dis­pro­por­tions. The pro­por­tion­ate is that checker­board of nights and days within which our lives are gov­erned, the rou­tine of sleep, how you part your hair, when you check for your mail, the trips to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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5. The Art of Disproportion

Posted on December 19, 1998 by thormay

Every writer cre­ates a pat­tern of dis­pro­por­tions. The pro­por­tion­ate is that checker­board of nights and days within which our lives are gov­erned, the rou­tine of sleep, how you part your hair, when you check for your mail, the trips to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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#2–1998 EDINN : Re-spinning Intellectuals into the Social Order

Posted on November 29, 1998 by thormay

1. What is an intel­lec­tual any­way? Intel­lec­tu­als as a sub-species rate some­what lower than gar­den spi­ders in the pub­lic esti­ma­tion (they are not use­ful, they can sting if you pick them up, and they are eco­nom­i­cally val­ue­less). Maybe it is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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1. Finding Truth: The Human Mind as an Error-Checking Mechanism

Posted on April 12, 1998 by thormay

“On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that will Reach her, about must and about must go, And what the hill’s sud­den­ness resists, win so.” [John Donne, 1572–1631] [ Pro­logue: In 1998 in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia, I had become a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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