A book I can’t stop thinking about.

His Albany Cycle (especially "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" is really wonderful

Strangely, email now almost seems to qualify as slow communication, with text and chat platforms beginning to predominate. I find I write my real sentences there. The memo, of course, is dead as a door nail.

And, yes, retirement. That will be peculiar, though welcome I think.

Truly. Though as it says in my bio: "Text based life-form."

The raging fire reorders the Great Chain of Being with human-defined systems at the bottom in George Stewart’s FIRE: “Against that heat driven on by the wind, all the power of Forest, Zone, and Region would have been for the moment no more than a few ants, furtively scurrying.”