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Michael Stevens

Jan 23, 20225 min read

Pancho, Lefty and motherly forgiveness

[I first posted a version of this short essay on the forum at thumped.com and am reposting here in a money-for-old-rope effort (except I...

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Michael Stevens

Oct 15, 20217 min read

The Frontier Index: Hooptedoodle in DNA and the lyrics of David Berman

ln his not-quite-seminal but still great novel Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck included a couple of chapters entitled “Hooptedoodle”, in...

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Michael Stevens

Aug 11, 20217 min read

Fred C. Dobbs and the Dark Forest: Warnings from Cixin Liu and The Treasure of Sierra Madre

I have just finished reading Cixin Liu's epic trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past and I think I need to take a break from reading, from...

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