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Real Life Returns
Real Life Returns I’ve just finished writing and footnoting an article, exploring new territory, with potential impact in a controversy that’s been roiling opinion-shapers for decades. Tonight I sent it to an editor at an influential journal of opinion who … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail’s debut, animal characters, bad kids, Bagheera the black panther, Baloo the Bear, bungalow colony, Camp Hilltop, childhood friendship, controversial essay, falling flower pot, famous victory, few mourners, fighting injustice, fighting words, fisticuffs, grown-up stuff, influential review, Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”, journal of opinion, kid stuff, kudos, Mowgli, Old Stony Road, opinion shapers, pyrrhic victory, real life, receptive editor, rich and famous, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, scholarly article, social flop, summer camp, summer playtime, the unexpected, unfair combat, Watchung hills of New Jersey
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Final Proofs
Final Proofs This week, amid a flurry of barely-caught typos, fonts of the wrong shade and misplaced style cues, Jerry, I, and his priceless crew of teammates finished going over the final set of proofs that go to the printer. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Alexandria VA, answered prayer, answering the call, author, belief, Bible movies, couples, creation, Creator, Divine communication, Divine messenger, Divine Presence, Divine summons, doubt, ego needs, empirical evidence, evidence, Faith, Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, getting married, getting to yes, God's audible voice, God's audible words, God's voice, God's words, higher ed organizations, human responsiveness, humility, identity, imagination, individuality, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", level-headedness, love, maintaining identity, marriage proposals, married life, newlyweds, ordinary life, ordinary world, philosopher, prayer, proofreading, proofs, prophet, protocol, publication, publication process, publishing, Q&A, quest, real life, reality check, receptivity, relationships, religion, Romantic Love, sacred, secularism, skepticism, spiritual growth, spiritual seekers, theism, Washington life, writers
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“Work and Life”
“Work and Life” The writer Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have said, about the aim of life, that it’s “to last and get your work done.” Well, he didn’t exactly do either. He did not last, for he killed himself, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction in art, aim of life, Aladdin's lamp, allegory, artistic sterility, British India, censorship, Charlie Rose, courage, death and art, death of art, decoding writing, deconstructionism, encoded writing, Enlightenment, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, fantasy, fisherman, genies, great American novel, groundedness, heresy, Islamic mindset, Islamic Orthodoxy, Islamic sensibility, jinn, Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing, liberal Muslims, magic, magical beings, magical realism, meaning of art, meaning of life, Modernity, Nobel Prize, novels, One Thousand and One Nights, overcoming adversity, post modernism, real life, realism, Romanticism, Sahih Al-Bukhari's The Translation of the Meanings of Ahadith Vol. 1-9 tr. by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, scholarship, sterility, T.V author interview, the human spirit, ungroundedness
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“Writing”
“Writing” I grew up among people whose most-oft-voiced concern was whether they would get their book, or next book, written. Without the book, the life-worth dwindled down to a small pile of ash, as my child’s mind pictured it. It … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, evil, history of ideas, literature, memoir, philosophy, power, psychology, relationships, spirituality, the examined life, theism, work, writing
Tagged "A Good Look At Evil", "Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir", academe, alienation, American woman, Augustine, Authenticity, author, becoming a writer, Bildungsroman, books, brainwashing, childhood, coming-of-age books, confessions, conversion, critics, despair, double-binds, editors, explanatory hypotheses, Henry M. Rosenthal, intellectuals, Jane Cullen, Jewish Theistic essence, Leo Bronstein, literary ambition, literary criticism, narrative, philosophical articles, publishing, real life, referee, rejection letters, reviewers, Rousseau, Russians, secrets, university press, writers, writing
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“Yenta”
“Yenta” I’ll venture a definition: a busybody whose interest and advice is not really well-intentioned, though it purports to be. A yenta is generally female, but if we assume that a man can be one too, an old-country joke comes … Continue reading
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Tagged childlessness, Egypt, gossip, intimacy, Jewish jokes, Moses, privacy, real life, singleness, Yenta
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