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The Genius of the Place

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

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I can clearly see my house, or the beginnings of my house, in the far background of a 1903 postcard of the First Christian Church in Berryville, Arkansas.

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The Awkward Age

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

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I'm caught between a lingering fantasy of a Roman Holiday, and the aspirations of a Care Consultant who hopes I am infirm enough to require batteries for effective locomotion. Goodness, what an awkward age!

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On Deafness And The Middle Distance

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

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Daniel Krotz

Deaf and near-deaf people such as myself operate in a world I think was best captured by classical Chinese painters. Their pictures have no middle distance: we see figures in the foreground, and we see mountains in the far ground, but what we see in the middle is left to the imagination and must be perceived.

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Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

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The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.

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Touring the Ozarks, One Crime at a Time

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.29.2009 | Books

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"I enjoy spending time with characters who learn, grow, and change through challenges, and who present human strengths of value to us all," Radine said.

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The Uses of Poetry

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

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Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.

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All Literature is Gossip

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

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The modern world does not wear its heart on its sleeve," John said, to no one in particular, apropos of nothing. He sipped a cup of coffee and stared off into space. "It wears it up its sleeve like a card shark."

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Letters From the Pen: A Review

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

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Letters offers an opportunity to witness a man in an unusual, if not unique, situation as he fine-tunes his craft and his understanding of the human condition.

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Burying Ben Franklin

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

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My friend is depressed by how things are turning out. He realizes how unreflective he has been, and he has suddenly realized how badly people are being served by our institutions.

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Third Wave Feminism

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

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An unintended consequence of the women's movement has been that men have become even more infantile and more self-involved.

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Manscaping

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Secret History, Berryville, Hillary Rettig, G.K. Chesterton, Larry McMurtry, Arkansas, Procopius, Style News
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Hillary Rettig says, "Manscaping is taking some raw, unfinished, barely civilized grunter of a guy and making him fabulous." In broad terms: the landscaping of poky territory between a man's foot and head.

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On Deafness

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

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I am almost entirely deaf. I don't mind very much. I've heard just about everything already and I don't think I'll miss hearing it the second or third time around.

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