Self Explanatory

  Vanity compels me to add that I usually look better than THAT… And credit Constance for inventing the idea.

News; Jeff Nicoll

I got my old friend Jeff Nicoll down to help me with computers. That is not his specialty; he was the only cosmologist i knew at the time, and Phillip  Morrison’s fair haired boy, being groomed as the future head of the physics department. And then he became enamored of a set of equations that …

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A very short memory of Cormac McCarthy

I did not know him  well, but  I respected him,  as a writer and a human . I had met his his brother,   Denis Michael, through the surreal gun dealer Mike Evans, before I ever met Cormac. My visits were mundane and probably boring to a literary bystander- drinks at his favorite table in  Sant …

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