Laeth's Blog, page 10

A Disquisition on Macrocephaly

When Klaus was born, his mother looked at him lovingly and exclaimed, What a big head you have. It was undeniably true, everyone else in the hospital and the family said so, none of them so lovingly as his mother of course, but in any case it was no cause for alarm, everyone knows that babies' heads are disproportionately large for their tiny bodies, and that this discrepancy is remedied by the inexorable passage of time.

By age four, however, the problem, if it can be called such, was still very...

Small Talk (52)

this will be the last instalment of this series (another will begin next year). happy new year!

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*dreams can come throughsometimes i get carried away and think i'm being brought backi try to keep it short, alwaynot all branches can be grafted into all root stocks. a botanical as well as a theological fact.AI is not taking over, it's taking underthey say the mind is like an umbrella, use...

Small Talk (51)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*if you're not internally motivated, you'll be externally demotivatedi feel intensely, and with paradoxical detachmentsome things are better left unsaid, so i write themi used to be on the fence about Chesterton, but then i took the fence down without a second thoughtMasanobu Fukuoka convinced me that traditional agriculture, while not as bad as its modern variety, is still destructive,...

An Essay on Fickleness

Mercurial people have the hardest time getting to the earth. Since the voyage to earth, regardless of where it starts, takes approximately nine months, there is plenty of time for the mercurial man or woman to change their mind, which, by their very nature, they do quite often and quite rapidly. Now, planetary provenance is not the only factor, of course. The germanic spirit, from whatever planet, and for example, is born on the earth above all others out of pure will, which is why the germanic ...