it is through the study and practice of illusion that we learn the art and science of the truth, and this philosophy has proved immensely effective. It suddenly struck him, for instance, that the definition of a complex machine was one that was five-dimensional—time defining the fourth, psychology the fifth. Mind transcended time, the same… [Read more…]
March 1, 2011
by Lisa Thatcher
The Babylonian Trilogy, as the title suggests, is a book divided into three parts. Each of the three parts deals with the large themes of existence: Life, death, poetry and the pieces in between. Each novel is different from the others in essence, although the reoccurring ideas and the intense characterisation give access to the… [Read more…]
February 14, 2011
by Lisa Thatcher
Ok, so I can feminist it up with the best of them. I’ve been down most of the paths: Intellectual antidisestablishmentarianism media whore with Germaine Greer; ultra pissed-off-ed-ness with Susan Brown-Miller and Alanis Morissette (ok, I may never have been THAT shitty); chemistry studies with Mary Daly to try to develop synthetic sperm; Übermensch… [Read more…]
With the many distractions which take up much of 21st century life, it can be difficult to get into an effective workflow. It seems that computers and communications technology has in some cases made this more difficult, has in fact reduced productivity rather than made work easier. This can definitely apply to me when it… [Read more…]
December 12, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
They’re so cheeky he said of they with no personality only instinct. But I looked in the eye, at the outstretched arm, at claws ready for gripping and mischief as it reached for some sugar cookie treat. No stupidity lurked in that eye; its expression functioned in open space. Squirrel turned, treat aloft… [Read more…]
December 12, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
It was about ten years ago that I attended a David Malouf book launch when he said that Australians are terrified of being swallowed whole by American culture and yet it is intrinsically in us to resist it. After all, there were American’s on the first fleet and we have been successfully resisting their attempts… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
Bernard may or may not exist. He’s the victim of a series of cruel experiments conducted on him by his father and a scientist who are trying to cure an ‘illness’ (in an age when all that exists is illness) that inflicts those called ‘Suburbanites’ that has rendered them all revolting, flesh-eating monsters. (It’s hard to miss the inference… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
Book review on A Million Versions of Right by Matthew Revert.
September 19, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
Review of Emma Donoghue's Room
September 6, 2010
by Lisa Thatcher
I completed another full day in my job (that I feel the need to be grateful for despite the fact that I don’t want to do it) last week. It’s a job I have been doing for almost fifteen years and I have the great pleasure of being good at it. However, being good at… [Read more…]
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March 22, 2011
by Lisa Thatcher
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