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“If I am not for myself, who will be? But if I am only for myself, who am I? And if not now, when? And if not me, who?” — Hillel the Elder. Every week in my short — and … Continue reading
Many years ago, when I fancied myself to be a teenage intellectual (the adjective, at least, can be verified in fact: I was indeed 15 years of age), one idle afternoon I poured over the latest issue of that journal … Continue reading
If my memory is correct, there is a passage towards the end of Joanna Meyerowitz’s How Sex was Changed: Transsexuality in America in which a trans woman states that “What all transsexuals have in common is our love of ‘Star … Continue reading
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” — Shakespeare, Henry V Perhaps because it is a time of transition, the month of September seems to evoke certain childhood memories in my consciousness. Although the warmth of the summer … Continue reading
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not, when I had come to … Continue reading