I’m sitting staring into the middle distance of my beige veneer desktop and gritting like crazy against the tide of email sludge rolling into my inbox. Maybe if I turn the music up another few keystrokes I might be able to force a narrow bandwidth of my consciousness to concentrate on the administrative tasks at [...]

Cleaning off my desktop after months of neglect I came across this fragment of text by Thomas Mann on the subject of German fascism: This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and [...]

Elsewhere is not the same as nowhere. It is not everywhere, nor somewhere, nor here. Elsewhere is the place where you are not. It might be a place that you long for, or a place where you store things out of sight and mind. The past is elsewhere. The future is elsewhere. Elsewhere is in [...]