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Taoificence

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

My graduate thesis involved collecting English translations of the Tao Te Ching and using the various translations to concoct narratives. In those pre-Google days, I was translating the original text character by character using an old weighty character dictionary. Now, you can literally read the entire 500 word classic in the original classical […]

“11:34 pm, October 12, 1954″

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

“My god, Jamesly, it went too far this time. No, it wasn’t like before–she was vivid this time, as though she were inviting me into her mind. It was nearly completely dark, with no light whatsoever, yet still, somehow tonality could be discerned. I saw her from a distance at first. It […]