- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Rusty Schweickart
A side effect of looking toward the skies is that you can’t help but notice stuff moves around up there. Rusty Schweickart, who got closer to the stars than most humans have or, at this rate, ever will, understands that … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Abe Sauer
The credo that Real Journalism would not quail before the Internet, but would instead become a hardy amphibian that hunts in new waters, finds its apotheosis here. Abe Sauer is such a creature, plying the digital currents and explaining two-thirds … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Heroes: Jim Beaver
Star actors invite us to know them better. Character actors shut us out. If they have an inner life, who wants to know? They’re not the leads, after all. They’re the raconteur buddy, the mafia don, the bartender. Never mind … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Heroes: John Clute
xxx xxx xxx It has heft, this work, and its like may not be seen again in printed form. The author himself has moved beyond the book, vowing that future iterations will exist only in our new shared online ether. … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Albert Ostman
We go into the wildlands to have encounters, even if those encounters are only with rock and silence. Envy the venturer, then, whose encounter is with magic — who goes seeking nature and gets abducted by wonder. Albert Ostman, 1957: … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Heroes: The Astonishing Head of Chi McBride
It is a thing of many facets. It has terrain, contour, perhaps even weather. It is beyond categories of right and wrong. It is a thing unknowable — we look at it, and we see eternity.
Wednesday’s Heroes: Pronounced ‘Koo-KHULL-Lin’
Cú Chulainn was the mythic hero of Ulster, son of a god and a princess, whose exploits were first written down in the 12th to 15th centuries. List now the words of Fiacha mac Firaba, the narrator, as he sings … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Heroes: John D. MacDonald
Creating the title gimmick for a series must be a terrible trap. You start out with something simple like Star Wars and wind up with a labyrinthine word-pummeling like Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. If you’re John … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Heroes: Nina Simone
Because however dour she might have seemed, she could take dreck like the original score from Hair and turn it into a sick jam. Continue reading
