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Posted on September 7, 2015September 7, 2015

The Statistician’s Parable. Nthposition, May 09

This was written on a phone, a Nokia of some kind. There are two companion parables. Changing the sex of the character from sentence to sentence seemed profound at the…

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Posted on September 7, 2015

Silence – A Fragment. Nthposition, March 2013

For some years now, I have been contemplating a philosophy of silence. Is that my most pretentious sentence yet? Possibly. Silence is fascinating. When we are most at ease with…

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Posted on August 28, 2015May 16, 2018

“Somewhere Near Venice”, from Shelf Life Magazine Issue #14 – I wrote this in early 2011 and it was published online in early 2012

Shelf Life Magazine is now defunct. When I look back at my early student writing, this is the kind of thing I was doing – I believe described by Michael…

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