Born and Raised in Black and White
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, September 25-October 1, 2024
The wind blows hard across the Texas plains
Makes some people go insane
While others quietly pray for rain
That's where we came from
We were born and raised in black and white
Comment of the Week
Tom Johnson on The End of Widespread Literacy: Great piece, Chris. I recommend the fine biography of McMurtry. Forgot the author, but the most recent, and maybe the only, one.
Thanks Tom! I found this: Larry McMurtry: A Life, by Tracy Daugherty. Is that the one?
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Flowers Close Up
The Pentax 50mm Macro lens is really growing on me as a short telephoto walk around lens for the K-3 III Monochrome.
The End of Widespread Literacy
A million-word summer. Just on Substack, so not counting the dozens of books I read this summer, and lord knows how many blogs and web pages and email newsletters. So of course I immediately thought I wonder how many words I wrote? Larry McMurtry would have understood.
Feola Elsewhere on the Internet
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Easter Eggs
My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
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