geofreycrow6 days ago2 min readThis One Dissolved into a Rant about Marketing and how it Sucks“Black Cat” is a story about a guy named Marcus, who is deathly afraid of cats. I have no particular desire to write about or think about...
geofreycrowMar 92 min readReflections on "Dreamland"“Dreamland” is a story about insomnia, a marriage falling apart, the Internet, and desire. More than anything it's a story about the...
geofreycrowMar 22 min readReflections on "The Serpent Atop the Mountain"“The Serpent Atop the Mountain” is a dialogue between two Victorian gentlemen, at least one of whom is something of an explorer. It...
geofreycrowFeb 232 min readReflections on "Nowhere"“Nowhere” is a longish, meandering story that's sort of about one thing and sort of about another. There are some ideas that work well,...
geofreycrowFeb 162 min readReflections on "Half a Life"“Half a Life” is a pretty good story. Way more worth reading than this lousy blog post, lemme tell you. In fact, you should skip this...
geofreycrowFeb 92 min readReflections on "Inside and Outside"“Inside and Outside” is mostly a story about how I don't like cockroaches. At the time I was writing it I thought it was a clever little...
geofreycrowFeb 23 min readReflections on "Potion"“Potion” came to me in a dream. The dream involved some corporate bureaucrat telling me I needed to drink some liquid in a glass in front...
geofreycrowJan 192 min readReflections on "Creation"“Creation” is one story I've written that regularly puts tears in my eyes when I return to it. I'm not sure what that means, but it's not...
geofreycrowDec 8, 20247 min readReading "On the Use and Abuse of History," Sections 8-9Last week, with sections 6 and 7 of “The Use and Abuse of History,” we went over some of Nietzsche's major criticisms of historical...
geofreycrowDec 1, 20248 min readReading "On the Use and Abuse of History," Secs 6-7In the middle sections of “The Use and Abuse of History for Life,” philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gets into the discussion of his main...
geofreycrowNov 24, 20248 min readReading "On the Use and Abuse of History," Secs. 4-5And in this way my thesis is to be understood and considered: “only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by...
geofreycrowNov 3, 20248 min readReading "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life," Preface & Sec. 1“The Use and Abuse of History for Life” begins its preface with a quote from Goethe: “I hate everything that merely instructs me without...