Michael Lipsey's Blog

• Qanats In America

  November 2, 2009

  • I've posted yet another chapter from my book on the history of plumbing, and everything else, at  http://ithoughtso.net/id15.htmllThis is a work in progress and comments or questions are welcome. 
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• Readers Are Communicators

  October 24, 2009

  • Words fail me. Words cannot express... I can’t tell you how... I wish I could say... I don’t know how to say this... I can’t say. Who can say? What can you say? Be careful what you say. There are no words for...Mere words, empty words, loose talk, psychobabble, happy talk, gibberish, false words, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, running my mouth. Watch your mouth! Don’t say ...
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• Henry James, Continuing My Expose Of Great Literature

  October 16, 2009

  • In college, imagining that I loved all great literature and could never get enough of it, I signed up for a course on Henry James. Henry proved to me that I could. We slogged through book after book after book. He wrote about fifty of them and we must have read at least a dozen. He was the brother of the great William James, who wrote Varieties Of Religious Experience, still a must read for ...
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