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An Excerpt from My Upcoming Kindle Release
Here’s an excerpt from a longish (~2500-3000 word) essay I’m writing for publication as a Kindle Book. It frames current belief in the college degree vis-a-vis traditional monotheistic religions’ value systems, and critiques it thusly. Do enjoy: Other doctrines with similar promises of deliverance (from evil, which is defined by each organization) have since emerged…
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Carpe Diem
And how you must think we are monsters, Pawing and grabbing and drooling and Chasing you back to your home and Your cute room-mates. Defending you from us, The barbarians at the gate. I am sorry, so sorry you are so pretty. So blithe and lithe and shameless. Vulnerable and hopeful. Calcium white. I…
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Note from a Halcyon Day – 2/20/11
Looking over the precipice, into the depths of others’ potential–theirs, mine too–I see a reflection of the man I am, not the one I should be. David and I killed the latter over pancakes. He’ll go unmourned.
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A Random Thought About The Coming Spring
I rarely eat lunch alone, but when I do I write in my journal. An excerpt: 2/17/2011 12:15 p.m. I really love these grey wet spring days. Especially before all the leaves and flowers come out: vernal sweetness with the bleak stark verity of winter–the world’s denuded skeletons stand still proudly, their limbs and digits…
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Regarding Support for UChicago Student Entrepreneurs
The University of Chicago likes to give undergraduate- and graduate students the illusion that they have a say in how the organization is run, so they grant us audience with members of the board of trustees every once in a while. Next week, I will attend a luncheon with Paul Yovovich, president, co-founder and principal…
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The Halcyon Days Goes on Sick Leave
Jason D. Rowley, principle contributor to The Halcyon Days, has come down with some variant of either rhinovirus or influenza. He hopes that his wild febrile phantasms provide inspiration for future content. In the meantime, do enjoy some old photos of hospitals from the Life Magazine photo archive. JDR should be back to his usual…
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Post #101: Notes on Going Forward
And this is the part where I tell you that my interests do not lie solely in complaining about college, writing bad poetry, or trying my hand at fiction. Since I was sixteen, I’ve been intensely interested in finance. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when this interest developed, what sparked it, but ever since—especially…
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Still More Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned
To read other quotes on which recently I’ve leaned, check out A Couple of Quotes On Which Recently I’ve Leaned. – – – It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one. –Chuck Palahniuk, Salon.com Letters, Aug. 26, 2003