Tag: review
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1883 and 1923
I just finished streaming the ten episode miniseries 1883, and I have to say I’m really impressed. It is a truly profound meditation on life and death. Elsa’s monologues are some of the most moving prose ever penned. A sample follows: Here, there can be no mistakes. Because here doesn’t care. The river doesn’t care…
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The Last Days of Night
I became aware of Graham Moore’s book, “The Last Days of Night,” through what I thought was the ambiguously and poorly named film version of it (The film in question turned out to be based on a different book about Tesla and Edison). I had intended to use my normal process of watching the movie…
Musings of a Restless Mind 