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Battle Hymns
… how the war had not merely reunited a divided nation, but had also become “the tide swing of a great historic consciousness” that would aid Americans to “define our own canons of criticism” and yield “incident enough to feed five hundred years of fiction.” And with what might have been an anticipation 30-years …
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… he’d tended to the house, she had hurried about, checking on the sheep that she and her husband keep on the family farmstead across the lane, feeding the dogs that guard the flock, then locking the gate behind her while my neighbor locked up the house again. Then they had driven off together. Until …
Read MoreA Toothsome Tale
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… as well, a gathering of familiar birds on the nearby trees—half of them probably waiting for my wife to take the hint and refill the bird feeder on the other side of our property. Every now and then, a regal-looking hawk, his wings solemnly folded about him, perches motionless at the top of …
Read MoreA Rebel to Remember
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We Are the Borg
… yet. This book builds on Kurzweil’s 2005 title, The Singularity Is Near, which argued that accelerating advances in computer science and other domains, coupled with positive feedback loops, would eventually produce a superhuman intelligence far beyond anything we can conceive—an event he dubbed the Singularity. (Kurzweil always capitalizes the term, like the Rapture …
Read MoreGoing for Gold
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Paradise Reclaimed
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Bathing Badasses
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To Catch a Sunset
… s baby; once they become yearlings, their mothers abandon them. We became aware of spots where they liked to rest late at night, and where they’d feed midmorning. Their hulk and bulk shook the ground. A telltale thump accompanied their approach.
One night, while I was working, the other residents had the first sighting …