by Charles Cameron | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the necessary simultaneity of temporal and eternal perspectives ] . ** First as to glamour -– it may help to reflect that glamour, our word, comes not from Vogue but from the same origins as grammar (referring to languages) and...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on creativity at the intersection of the fleeting and the eternal ] . Centaur, displayed in the International Wildlife Museum, Tucson, AZ ** You know Lao Tzu’s “uncarved wood†(pu) — and Spencer Brown’s “Mark†or “first...
by zen | Apr 22, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Reading Room, University of Chicago Library Last Sunday I spent a very enjoyable afternoon meeting T. Greer of Scholar’s Stage blog and visiting with him and Lexington Green of the group blog Chicago Boyz ( where T....
by zen | Mar 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Union League Club of Chicago Building Yesterday, I attended the 2014 Midwest Business & Marketing Conference at the historic Union League Club of Chicago. While business conferences are far afield from my usual...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[by Charles Cameron — a very preliminary salute to James Bennett and Michael Lotus’ new book, with blues harp to match ] . . Okay, I’m a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, a jackdaw, not the most consistent of readers — but I did stumble upon...
