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!

they used to sleep on the beach

in Coney Island. They don't do that anymore. best writing music ever, apparently. Godspeed on Amazon

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.

A little something something

Handley Page Halifax - shows up in the first part of my story.