The Long View: Fredy Neptune
I haven't read this book, but I admit I'm intrigued by John's description of it.
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse
by Les Murray
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
255 Pages, $27.50 (US)
ISBN: 0-374-15854-1
In "The Devil'
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The Long View 2003-09-11: There is Progress
In my re-posting of John Reilly's book review of Robin Wright's Nonzero, I criticized Wright's terminology when talking about causation. If Wright combined his high level final causes with something like the article in Evolution linked below, I would have been happy. It
The Long View: Nonzero
I'm not any sort of a biologist, but describing the rise of multicellular life as "altruistic" seems a bit off to me. Maybe it is just because I have been reading so much of Greg Cochran's acerbic wit recently, but I think you get
The Long View 2003-09-04: Twilight Phenomena
This is your regular reminder that Gordon Chang is still wrong. He may not be wrong forever. Jean Raspail ended up being extremely right 42 years later. Raspail got some of the details wrong, but the big picture is very right.
John said a lot of things about Iraq and
The Long View: Little, Big
The book reviewed by John here is now old enough that its fantastical future has become alternative history.
Little, Big
By John Crowley
Perennial (Harper Collins), 2002
First Published 1981
538 Pages, US$15.95
ISBN 0-06-093793-9
"'Paracelsus is of the opinion,' Dr. Bramble
The Long View: Daemonimania
John major emphasis was millennialism. I think he had a minor emphasis in the occult as well, insofar as these two things have a tendency to overlap. His book reviews of occult fiction are especially good.
Daemonomania
by John Crowley
Bantam Books, 2000
451 Pages, US$24.00
ISBN 0-
The Long View 2003-08-28: Buckets of Bile
Sadly, I find that I missed a couple of images John included in this post when I used wget to download his entire website. The Internet Archive also lacks them, so I think they are lost forever. Darn, I think they would have been doozies.
As for the purpose of