Greg Correll
@gcorrell.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Skeptic. CUNY Writers Center Fellow, CAPS board member. Father to three ferocious daughters.
Tackling 5 volume classic of 1700s China, in ways a proto-modernist—Woolf, Proust et al—on pg 96 and i find the infamous 1st third to be lucid, plot driven. perhaps because of the Chinese translations i’ve been reading. So fa? riveting. ps: reading Egan & Pai’s chapter by chapter guide as i progress
December 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tackling 5 volume classic of 1700s China, in ways a proto-modernist—Woolf, Proust et al—on pg 96 and i find the infamous 1st third to be lucid, plot driven. perhaps because of the Chinese translations i’ve been reading. So fa? riveting. ps: reading Egan & Pai’s chapter by chapter guide as i progress
We have always been this way. And yes, there are other ways. It’s just our turn in the chute, to defend humanity, to advance the wheel of compassion.
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We have always been this way. And yes, there are other ways. It’s just our turn in the chute, to defend humanity, to advance the wheel of compassion.
Here is a GOOD thing about modern America: bare-ass beltings are no longer considered acceptable parenting. You see some kid get punched in a grocery store, the world will land on that parent’s head. In previous times the world shrugged, allowed it. I know this intimately.
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here is a GOOD thing about modern America: bare-ass beltings are no longer considered acceptable parenting. You see some kid get punched in a grocery store, the world will land on that parent’s head. In previous times the world shrugged, allowed it. I know this intimately.
Pencils have a huge value-to-cost advantage. A single normal pencils lasts, all the way to the stub. ✏️
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Pencils have a huge value-to-cost advantage. A single normal pencils lasts, all the way to the stub. ✏️
I’m 70, fit enough. What i am NOT is interested in the (too many) “friendings” from overtly sexual bs accounts. Please leave me alone.
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’m 70, fit enough. What i am NOT is interested in the (too many) “friendings” from overtly sexual bs accounts. Please leave me alone.
Finishing The Way of the Boddhisattva. I was raped and beaten for five days and nights when i was 14, at a degenerate facility in St Louis. Buddhism asks me to forgive, and comprehend how my rapists and the guards who permitted it suffer, themselves. This is very, very hard.
December 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Finishing The Way of the Boddhisattva. I was raped and beaten for five days and nights when i was 14, at a degenerate facility in St Louis. Buddhism asks me to forgive, and comprehend how my rapists and the guards who permitted it suffer, themselves. This is very, very hard.
Finished the Dao de Jing, then the slim, ancient Dhammapada; now starting The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva (approx 4th c). Daily immersion into these works is changing me.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Finished the Dao de Jing, then the slim, ancient Dhammapada; now starting The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva (approx 4th c). Daily immersion into these works is changing me.
Reading The Other Shore, in tandem with Red Pine’s Three Zen Sutras (Heart, Diamond, Platform). Starting to understand being and no-being. Everything is shifting in me, away from anger and greed
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reading The Other Shore, in tandem with Red Pine’s Three Zen Sutras (Heart, Diamond, Platform). Starting to understand being and no-being. Everything is shifting in me, away from anger and greed
From Lankavatara Sutra:
When external realms are not perceived /
Their cessation does not mean nothingness /
Everything is real /
As it is in the realm of sages
(LXII, buddha answers Mahamati; speaks to the reality of cause and effect, despite Buddha’s ‘no cause, no effect’). Everything is real.
When external realms are not perceived /
Their cessation does not mean nothingness /
Everything is real /
As it is in the realm of sages
(LXII, buddha answers Mahamati; speaks to the reality of cause and effect, despite Buddha’s ‘no cause, no effect’). Everything is real.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
From Lankavatara Sutra:
When external realms are not perceived /
Their cessation does not mean nothingness /
Everything is real /
As it is in the realm of sages
(LXII, buddha answers Mahamati; speaks to the reality of cause and effect, despite Buddha’s ‘no cause, no effect’). Everything is real.
When external realms are not perceived /
Their cessation does not mean nothingness /
Everything is real /
As it is in the realm of sages
(LXII, buddha answers Mahamati; speaks to the reality of cause and effect, despite Buddha’s ‘no cause, no effect’). Everything is real.
Reading The Lankavatara Sutra; in the background my partner embroiders a quilt & watching “Everybody’s Fine”, w/ Robert Deniro: absolutely brilliant screenplay; penetrates while i read. Movie presents fatherhood w/ sublime finesse. Heard but did not see it. Netflix. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybo...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reading The Lankavatara Sutra; in the background my partner embroiders a quilt & watching “Everybody’s Fine”, w/ Robert Deniro: absolutely brilliant screenplay; penetrates while i read. Movie presents fatherhood w/ sublime finesse. Heard but did not see it. Netflix. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybo...
My current reading. The most difficult sutra, by reputation. I find it transparent, and strange. But beautiful in its eloquent obscurity. I am teased by my personal attainments in my half-assed Buddhism, how they fit/don’t fit my humaneness and attachments to non-existence/existence
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My current reading. The most difficult sutra, by reputation. I find it transparent, and strange. But beautiful in its eloquent obscurity. I am teased by my personal attainments in my half-assed Buddhism, how they fit/don’t fit my humaneness and attachments to non-existence/existence
At 70 i am experiencing onset of dementia. Forgetfulness, confusion, slow responses. My solution works: i read 4-5 hours a day, challenging works, and write quick responses as poetry/prose poems. Revisiting reincorporates me. To all younger readers: old age is no joke; always challenge yourself.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
At 70 i am experiencing onset of dementia. Forgetfulness, confusion, slow responses. My solution works: i read 4-5 hours a day, challenging works, and write quick responses as poetry/prose poems. Revisiting reincorporates me. To all younger readers: old age is no joke; always challenge yourself.
When he takes control for his third term—and he will—he will show his true soul(lessness). It will be brutal. A storm is coming and it will set us back two generations.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When he takes control for his third term—and he will—he will show his true soul(lessness). It will be brutal. A storm is coming and it will set us back two generations.
We are already past the coup; we are already in a War—and they are winning.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We are already past the coup; we are already in a War—and they are winning.
My late in life reading advice-i-wish-i-got-20-years-ago: how much you read is always Great! Embrace that, combine with daily reading? Transformed me, my habits. Next: mess w/ books: underline, add stars. Remember: there is astonishing JOY in literature, tho it usually creeps up on you. Humans! Wow!
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My late in life reading advice-i-wish-i-got-20-years-ago: how much you read is always Great! Embrace that, combine with daily reading? Transformed me, my habits. Next: mess w/ books: underline, add stars. Remember: there is astonishing JOY in literature, tho it usually creeps up on you. Humans! Wow!
I post mostly about reading literature. It is my best way of coping with tRump. We have all been here before, is what literature teaches. It’s America’s turn again.
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I post mostly about reading literature. It is my best way of coping with tRump. We have all been here before, is what literature teaches. It’s America’s turn again.
My new reading project: in order to read the 5 vol ‘The Story of the Stone’ (17th c), i am reading a classic, 8th century BCE ‘The Book of Songs, and the immense vol 1 of ‘Sources of Chinese Tradition’, from oracle bones thru the renaissance. The early poetry is sublime.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My new reading project: in order to read the 5 vol ‘The Story of the Stone’ (17th c), i am reading a classic, 8th century BCE ‘The Book of Songs, and the immense vol 1 of ‘Sources of Chinese Tradition’, from oracle bones thru the renaissance. The early poetry is sublime.
Anna Karennina, page 768: my heart breaks, i cry again. The most haunting, tragic, best-realized story of self-deception and loss. Staggering writing. I am so sad.
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Anna Karennina, page 768: my heart breaks, i cry again. The most haunting, tragic, best-realized story of self-deception and loss. Staggering writing. I am so sad.
Finishing the new-ish Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy. I have cried three times. The humanity and insight of this towering work stuns my soul. Virginia Woolf is right: few have equalled this work for its deeply felt truths and realism. I will cry again before i finish.
October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finishing the new-ish Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy. I have cried three times. The humanity and insight of this towering work stuns my soul. Virginia Woolf is right: few have equalled this work for its deeply felt truths and realism. I will cry again before i finish.
At 70 years i read everything i didn’t: Proust, Tripitaka, Tolstoy, Monkey King, Wharton, Joyce, Dostoyevski, the Aeniad, all of Dante, and over 300 books i avoided/neglected. A state of focus & joy; i improve. Hope to live long enuf to finish the list. Mortality sucks; reading is everything.
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
At 70 years i read everything i didn’t: Proust, Tripitaka, Tolstoy, Monkey King, Wharton, Joyce, Dostoyevski, the Aeniad, all of Dante, and over 300 books i avoided/neglected. A state of focus & joy; i improve. Hope to live long enuf to finish the list. Mortality sucks; reading is everything.
I expect our next Democratic president—if that happens— will turn that ballroom into something useful. Soup Kitchen? training area for volunteers and activists? Indoor rose garden? Selling the 50 million in gold embellishments would fund preschools.
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I expect our next Democratic president—if that happens— will turn that ballroom into something useful. Soup Kitchen? training area for volunteers and activists? Indoor rose garden? Selling the 50 million in gold embellishments would fund preschools.
When I was fourteen I was in a jail in St Louis, misery, under their infamous ‘incorrigible’ law. Two weeks in I was transferred to a cell in a dead-end hall. For five days and nights I was raped, humiliated. Google Boonville. America is putting persons in rape camps. I testify: no. Not in my name.
September 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
When I was fourteen I was in a jail in St Louis, misery, under their infamous ‘incorrigible’ law. Two weeks in I was transferred to a cell in a dead-end hall. For five days and nights I was raped, humiliated. Google Boonville. America is putting persons in rape camps. I testify: no. Not in my name.
Be ready. There will be violence, state-sponsored & otherwise, on the streets of the US. Put on your Gandhi apparel when you march & demo. They will use protester behavior as justification for martial law. Blood’s coming, death’s coming. America’s turn to fight fascism within. Seriously: get ready.
September 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Be ready. There will be violence, state-sponsored & otherwise, on the streets of the US. Put on your Gandhi apparel when you march & demo. They will use protester behavior as justification for martial law. Blood’s coming, death’s coming. America’s turn to fight fascism within. Seriously: get ready.
Just finished this sublime antho/reference work. To writers and poets: try this. The mix of styles—poems, prose poems, prose, essays, novellas, short stories, plays—covers the waterfront and prompts poetry on every page. I dogeared thirty pages. Now i return to Journey to the West, vol 2
September 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just finished this sublime antho/reference work. To writers and poets: try this. The mix of styles—poems, prose poems, prose, essays, novellas, short stories, plays—covers the waterfront and prompts poetry on every page. I dogeared thirty pages. Now i return to Journey to the West, vol 2