Portrait of Sylvette David in green chair, 1954 . I just saw this painting again on twitter. It always gives me a jolt of recognition; it transports me back into high school (the Fürst Johann von Moritz Gymnasium) in my home town in Germany. Some works of contemporary artists were reproduced in our history text … Continue reading
. . . . I can’t remember this card. What is it about? Why did I correct the spelling of my first name and put my signature on the card? How did this Todd Mueller get hold of it? How did he arrive at this price of $174.99? This is an insult, considering I … Continue reading
. . The Empress Jito — an artifact in Cornell Botanic Gardens The glyphs on the tree trunk are difficult to decipher. It is conceivable that they have been deliberately obfuscated to conceal their meaning. After careful microscopic analysis, here is a rendition of what appears to be an ancient Japanese text: Haru sugite … Continue reading
. . Sifting through the documents that have accumulated in my office over decades, I found two pages of text purportedly attributed to “Miss Read.” [Wiki: Dora Jessie Saint MBE (17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012), née Shafe, best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress. … Continue reading
. Maison Cristina, forthcoming novel by Eugene K. Garber September 1, 2021 ISBN: 978-0-9846994-8-3 Transformation Press . . In this brilliant novel which requires close, attentive reading, the narrator introduces us to two people, one a dysfunctional man, Naughton, with a fountain of stories from his past, and tending to logorrhea, the other Charlene, a … Continue reading
. . This is one of the years in the 17-year cycle known from before antiquity. Socrates commented on it. . I came across this fabulous quote on Twitter: . . . from “Eros the Bittersweat,” an essay by the Canadian poet Anne Carson . . . . So we are talking delta function … Continue reading
. “Can you open my eyes?” I asked Tom, my son in law, who possesses arts and image processing dexterity that exceeds mine several fold. “Sure” he said and managed to graft eyes from a slightly younger photo into my face. The picture shows the ‘Schöne Willy,’ my physics teacher Willy Schröder, as he … Continue reading
. . After the experience of statues being dismantled in the wave of BLM last year it is poignant to see a depiction of a similar event right at the beginning of this nation. For someone born and raised in Europe this is a fresh view, untainted by the mantras of school textbooks. … Continue reading
. . This is a poem that occurred to me when I walked Daisy this other day: . A spring without Trump is the most beautiful thing . .
. . We’re back for a week, from a year living in Great Barrington, MA. The sun was out when we arrived, and decided to take a stroll. I didn’t get very far because I was drawn to the visual bombardment that I had missed. Here are some of the pictures, all close to the … Continue reading
“Das Haus in the Engsbachstrasse.” — The house on Engsbachstrasse 3 in Weidenau, Germany +Mein Beitrag zur handgemachten Sonderausgabe der Siegener Zeitung, anlässlich Vater’s 80sten Geburtstag. My contribution to the mock-special issue of the Siegener Zeitung, prepared on the occasion of his father’s 80th birthday. +Deutsch/English +Ausgegraben von meiner Schwester Ingeborg im Januar 2021. Dug … Continue reading
John von Neumann after his first computer was complete: “I don’t know how useful this will be. But at any rate it will be possible to get a lot of credit in Tibet by coding ‘Om Mane Padme Hum’ a hundred million times an hour. It will far exceed anything prayer wheels can do.”
. . I’m posting a few pictures as memorabilia. It is not often that we live through a cataclysmic event of this magnitude. The faces of many insurrectionists are uncovered, as stupid demonstration of masculinity during a pandemic, but also proof of their confidence that this attack will succeed as a coup d’Etat. Much will … Continue reading
This is a beautiful specimen of Google Translate, from English original to German. My sister recently found the file again, which relates to an award I received while still at the Wadsworth Center in Albany. For those not familiar with the German language: my last name “Frank” also means (1) free, as in “frank und … Continue reading
. . I sent the following letter on January 7, 2021 to Sen. Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand and Congressman Nadler: “President Trump’s actions in the past four years have proven that he is a serious threat to National Security. By temper, lack of morality, and utter disdain for the Constitution he has been unfit to hold … Continue reading
. . Fabulous family portrait, a gift by Tom, our son in law, who is an artist. Given to us on Christmas day 12/25/2020. It enters the annals of our pandemic time for two reasons: One is that it is COVID-19 that brought us closely together as an extended family in our house in Alford, … Continue reading
