When a Single Story Has a Thousand Sides
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âRenditionâ tries to be thoughtful and respectful of complexity while at the same time honoring the imperatives of commercial entertainment.
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The littlest story may be the biggest.
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There's one way to sift through all it has to offer.
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There are relatively simple solutions to a looming problem.
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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
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They have their stories. Sad stories. Hard-luck stories. Backs-against-the-wall stories. It is those stories that make them so appreciative of their situation, so hard-working, so unselfish, and probably so underappreciated by others.
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One of the interesting and unusual things about writing a book like this, in serial form, is that you really never know what you&#39;re going to write about along the`way.
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Fools can draw too many conclusions from too little data.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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They call it the Hundred Years' War. Not because it involves brutish medieval unpleasantries like the battle axe. It involves only the sharp edge of cutting words between a Washington area company and a New York investor in a war of Wall Street that merely feels like it has lasted a century.
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The Beethoven piano sonatas tell a story, but which story is a matter of debate.
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FoTW Inability to follow a story by reason of anger, part 73
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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The current story-line is NOT autobiographical. Angela and I will be celebrating 12 years of marital bliss in Feb and are in no danger of divorce. If anything, the fact that I&#8217;ve never really been touched by divorce, even in my extended family, makes me wholly unqualified to write this arc. So I&#8217;m trudging through to [...]
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The importance of keeping personal matters personal Comment Sometimes I hear a story that is simply breathtaking in its stupidity and potential for disaster. For your delectation, horror, and amazement, here is one relayed to me by a good friend a few days ago.â¦