The ethereal video played the same role for Thorpe that an antique sculpture did for Rainer Maria Rilke in his poem 'Archaic Torso of Apollo': It instructed, 'You must change your life.' 'It was a wake-up call,' Thorpe, who is twenty-three, said, adding, 'Everything made sense in that moment, and I was, like, Wow, I’m doing it wrong, I’m living my life incorrectly.'"So begins "We All Have 'Main-Character Energy' Now/On… [read post]

This was the plan but the whole undertaking was accompanied by an understanding that the participants (David Rasmussen, Ken Baynes, Andrew Koppelman and Rainer Forst in the first, Karl Klare, Steve Winter, Dennis Davis, and David Dyzenhaus in the second, Dieter Grimm, Sandy Levinson, Linda McClain, Jim Fleming and Oliver Gerstenberg in the third, and Rosalind Dixon, Alessandro Ferrara and Neil Walker in the fourth) were free to cross lanes, so as to engender a lively open… [read post]

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did…. [read post]

The other critic is astrophysicist Rainer Plaga of Germany, also an apparently respected academic, if less colorful than Dr. [read post]