Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright's Blog, page 3

Tennyson's Bar, Planking at Yaki Point, and Bad Bat Renderings: Texting Pictures Across the Corpus Callosum

DI:E...is up. A disquisition on Picturing. Been humming the lyrics to "I'll Never Be Jealous Again" all morning. Gold star (and help crossing the street) to anyone who can place that tune.
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The Chebarkul Meteor, iRobot Vacuum Cleaners, and A Prius in Flatland: The Atmosphere of Objects

Today, in Dies Iovis:Ergo...
I write about our atmosphere...of Objects, that is. It's a little something for designers, design philosophes and Prius owners.
http://www.peterwheelwright.com/the-c...

Cracking Wise with Seneca, Eyes That Hear, and Jack London's Boat: Bell Labs meets The Pleasure of the Text

http://www.peterwheelwright.com/crack...

Last week was about inside-out pockets, this week it's outside-in ears...

St. Jerome, The Gettysburg Address, Inside-Out Pockets, and a Latinate Zeus: The Art of Mulling

More Dizzying Circularity!

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Driving Miss Daisy in Austria, the Umlaut in Noë, and Saggers: Bodies and All-Terrain Vehicles

Early morning, dark outside, airport time, but first...
Dies Iovis: Ergo...where philosophers go for sport
Today: "Driving Miss Daisy in Austria, the Umlaut in Noë, and Saggers: Bodies and All-Terrain Vehicles"
Buckle up, and don't get lost:

http://www.peterwheelwright.com/drivi...

Good Beaches, Palladian Villas, and Lyle Lovett: Square Dancing with The Terrible Master in Borges' Attic

ok..it's a wrap. Another missed stop sign at "Dies Iovis: Ergo..."

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The Little Drummer Boy and The Secretary of State: A Quest for Grace & Spiritus

Something for John Kerry fans, lapsed musicians, shower head buffs and anyone else looking for something to do in Brooklyn later his month...
http://www.peterwheelwright.com/the-l...

Giveaway with Strings Attached...

Believe it or not, I'm pleased to see that my recent offer of a Giveaway for As It Is On Earth is attracting far lower numbers than for the first Giveaway.

Why?...When I realized that there are hundreds of readers simply trolling for a free book (bless their hearts, they're readers at least!), it became pretty clear that I needed to put some scare into this Giveaway in order to, hopefully, attract the right reader. No sense wasting the book on someone whose preferred genre is ...well, something very different from AIIOE's. Seems unfair to them and to me.

After all, isn't the search for one's true community of readers what literary fiction authors deep down aspire too? I know I do.

I'll let you know how this next Giveaway works out!

Riding the Single Chair: Confessions of The Unsociable

Dies Iovis: Ergo... is up!
Something for you curmudgeonly MRG skiers. Or any curmudgeon for that matter.
http://www.peterwheelwright.com/ridin...

Robespierre & Zebras on the Road to Damascus

Ok it's up: Dies Iovis: Ergo…
(Besides the headliners, some tags: brains, minds, hookworms, Justice Scalia, the ineffable, Frankenstein, Assad and, of course, a dash of William James and Mr. Natural)
Robespierre & Zebras on the Road to Damascus