http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Farting-Dog-William-Kotzwinkle/dp/1583940537 I was just thinking about good ol “Horse Badorties.” So, I checked out the works of Kotzwinkle and… http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Farting-Dog-William-Kotzwinkle/dp/1583940537

I don’t know who this guy is. When I first read ‘The Stranger’ it was this edition. The white make-up, the crazy hats, I want to know who the artist was who had this vision, what was the context, what was the history. If anyone has a copy and can find a caption about what it is, or if anyone knows the artist I’d love to know. It made that haunting story all the more haunting, for me.

Social awkward penguin Darcy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany How remarkable to think that we’re still finding forgotten lore!

Why is it that priordial origin stories are so similar across times and places? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-trace-society-rsquo-s-myths-to-primordial-origins/

I’ve always admired, and, in truth occasionally snickered at, the French demand that French things stay French in an obviously French way. It was like they were trying to hold back the tide of globalism through hauteur and protectionism.

These days, I’m more sympathetic. By virtue of indoctrinating this behavior ("puh!"), some truly special and uniquely French things still exist. For a moment, let me extol French graphic novels.

Like many young men, in my youth I became fascinated with a fantasy series of novels with wooden dialogue, stilted characters, and naive models of human interaction: the writing of Ayn Rand.

There is so much that is inept, odious, gross, ugly and base in her writing that boasts self-importance and depth while it possesses neither. But there is one area where Rand showed an aptitude if not an outright gift: horniness. Especially the rush to rut as sublimated into … industrial Pennsylvania.