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On my poetry bookshelf: Jorge Luis Borges
Many of my poetry books came to me on a whim. I found a Surrealist Anthology in the trash after a session at BU ended. A roommate left a book of Symbolists when he moved away. Some ancient texts were discovered in used book carrels and have survived several relocations. Jorge Luis Borges's place in this little library is different. His books are remarkably complete and stand together proudly. Borges himself was avidly comprehensive in his knowledge and letters, so the elongated space his work takes up in my small library makes sense. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Encyclopedia. He was frail and clinically myopic as a child. Yet he avidly explored the worlds of letters. He read and wrote as if the mantle of a Boethius, Voltaire, Humboldt or [Thomas] Young was upon him - as if he was the last man to know everything. When his genetic myopia led to blindness in the 1950s, Borges focused on poetry. He not only wrote it but also lectured on his method, which was as much tango as ...
Letter to the Editor on Trump family business
Letter to the Editor: Details of Trump family businesses continue to emerge, most of which touch on new forms of digital currencies. Surprisingly President Trump with little fanfare fits in a bit of digital currency policy here and there and he has left his sons the job to follow-up with deals. The deal in today’s paper is not easy to comprehend. Neither is Three-Card Monde on 14th St. The news is that a company called Alt5 Sigma, a little known Las Vegas firm previously focused on biotechnology, according to Bloomberg, said it would buy $1.5 B of World Liberty tokens. The company World Liberty – effectively a crypto currency company - was formed by the Trumps and others late last year, and it began to mint “tokens.” Alt5 Sigma will now carry tokens on their books, much as the former MicroStrategies software company does with bitcoin. The Alt5 Sigma company had annual revenue of $12.53 million in fiscal year 2024. In a few weeks the Trump Family has garnered over $1B [dollars, not tok...
Vault Poem - The Catechumen - Clement's Poem
This is a semi religious poem construction for Labor Day! Jack thru John channels Clement. The Catechumen - Clement's Poem I Clement who waltzed my Matilda the known world over studying recall that the 'churches' were simple often, they were someone's apartment and the décor was no décor. You, the prayerful pilgrim brought your emptiness to the void and it became full. - My name is John and this came to me in a dream. more about this : https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2015/10/reading-on-christian-art-of-early-kind.html