Wolf Miscellany

I think there is an unstated human obsession with wolves, perhaps because they contain in essence both the genes of our species’ best animal friend, and the age -old simultaneous rep as humankind’s most visible enemy. Here are a few recent instances. I have always heard the some of the big Central Asian flock protection …

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Good Friday musing on lines from Yeats

You know it: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Fools dominate the news. Too many good people in the west support a thuggish blowhard who refuses to accept the law while apparently trying to start …

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Stupid Quote

You are going to have to search hard for worse. Tom McIntyre sends this masterpiece of po- mo ignorance from National Geographic’s Explorer- in residence (“Isn’t that an oxymoron?”), one Derek Joubert: “Hunting will one day be relegated to the category of awful things we did as humans, alongside apartheid and the Holocaust.” If you …

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He is not an intellectual…

…and neither am I. On About last Night, Terry Teachout, possibly the most wide- ranging American critic and cultural writer, explains: “I incline as a rule to the mode of thought and feeling implied by T.S. Eliot’s remark that Henry James had “a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.” All history, especially …

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Frustration

I have tons of material– John Wilson on sending some Mexican wolves to Mexico, with pics; all manner of current events; books to review (Paula Young Lee’s delightful Deer Hunting in Paris is way overdue); more poets to quote– Zarzyski!); foodbloggiing, imminent novels by friends,  gyr coming…. And all I seem to do is catchup …

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Q Cover Redux

In the home stretch  on the new  edition of  Q.  For the cover, I still favor some variety of this photo (forgive quality of my amateur efforts; I am sure a designer could do wonders with my template). The publisher favors the old cover. Any last thoughts? Here are the mockups I attempted. The old …

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