January 3, 2018
June 8, 2015
Hello and welcome to the MUSE JUICE BOOK CLUB! I’m delighted you showed up, and am elated to be your host and moderator. A quote, important note: if you’re not a member of our tribe (and haven’t signed up for my muse-letter) you won’t be able to participate. Please take a moment to sign up here. You’ll receive a surprise gift from me right away via email, so there’s THAT to look forward to! Now, for all members, here’s what you can expect, and what I ask of you: Each Sunday I’ll be posting the discussion topic and questions for […]
October 5, 2012
His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land animals there are certain valves or flood-gates in many of their veins, whereby when wounded, the blood is in some degree at least instantly shut off in certain directions. Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below […]
September 4, 2012
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.