Going back to 1985, Roger Kimball reviews a collection of conversations with Walker Percy. Mr. Percy’s chief concern as a novelist is with ”the dislocation of man in the modern age,” with the sense of ennui and meaninglessness that has shadowed so many lives, even – or perhaps especially – in the midst of affluence.…
Though the headline doesn’t really connote what’s on offer (well, today is billed as a big Stones day), here are two NOLA food articles. The second is especially interesting. Embracing the goat in NOLA Overeating in the Big Easy The enemies are not our trademark foods, like boiled crawfish, shrimp remoulade, debris poor boys and oysters…
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Sums it up really: But the best concert I saw cost nothing, at what has to be the best free venue in New Orleans, Three Muses on Frenchmen Street, in the Seventh Ward, just outside the French Quarter. Why? It’s intimate but not crowded. (While the staff members at the door don’t collect covers, they…
I was curious to find out whether or not “Bunt” Percy was still alive since it was she that nudged her husband Walker into reading Confederacy. As Cory MacLauchlin tells it: Walker said to Bunt, “You read it. Tell me what to do with it.” A few days later, Walker asked Bunt what she thought…
Some excerpts from Lars’ paper. When the concept of stigmergy was first introduced in 1959 by the French entomologist Pierre-Paul Grassé (1959), an important step towards understanding the coordination of collective activities in social insects was made. Today, the concept of stigmergy is well established within the field of entomology (Theraulaz and Bonabeau, 1999). Turning…
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins (p.10). a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
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