–Artwork By Michael DiMilo Last summer, my wife and I had to pay a visit the local emergency room—nothing serious—and even though the treating physician was exceedingly efficient and confident, I couldn’t get over the fact that he looked like one of my high school students. During our visit, I asked him if he could …
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Schadenfreude
–artwork by Michael DiMilo– It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. –Gore Vidal: I had a next-door neighbor a few years back who had to move out of his place unexpectedly. He broke no laws, he did nothing wrong, but still had to be physically removed from the building. He was a very …
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Safety In Numbers
Photo by Dušan veverkolog on Unsplash By Geoff Carter When I was in my sophomore high school English class, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we read a Joseph Conrad book, The Secret Sharer, about a character meeting his double. This is not an uncommon theme in literature; it is a recurring device in the works of Nabokov, …
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