Advice from the monastic cell

And people think being a medievalist can’t help you on the modem world!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/their-noonday-demons-and-ours.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateemb2

Still want to learn how to be a stylite though.

That was way too easy to accidentally unpublish. Republishing!

Things I wish I’d seen earlier.

Have to go back to the Lysander, the SOE stopped using the Halifax in ’42….

Futurians: how awesomely perfect are they? I feel like I need to work them in somehow. The 39 World’s Fair is all over the other book. Kind of early though, wonder if he could get in.

His father is so a Theosophist. Not unknown in that social class, would put him in contact with someone from downtown like his mother (who is more of the Goldman school). I like the idea of the mother bringing the rabble-rousing radical communism, and the father bringing a tempering of pacifism and a spiritual overview to them.

Lastly: it’s odd considering that this was, in no way, the inspiration for the characters–but there was more of me and my sister in the scene i wrote about Gene and Reed than anything else I’ve written.