• TGU — and me — on the virus and warfare analogy

    Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:50 a.m. As so often, I sit down to work feeling that I should know where we go next, yet don’t quite know. Here, for instance, I get that there’s a logical continuance to your argument about the virus and our civilization, but without re-reading the past few entries, I don’t…

  • Papa’s Trial — the novel that announced its own coming

    My favorite Hemingway photo. Would have used it on the cover it we could have figured out permissions. I’d never had a novel announce itself in quite that way. A long time ago (June 3, 2012), I was driving to my friend Nancy Ford’s house, which was a journey of about half an hour from…

  • TGU on following our bliss, and on the virus and society

    Sunday, April 4, 2021 4:40 a.m. So I posted a short piece telling how Papa’s Trial came to me – all at once – and then took nine years to be worked out in practice. That’s the 3D/non-3D predicament in a nutshell: Non-3D says, “Say, here’s a great idea, take care of it for us,…

  • TGU on transforming society

    Monday, April 5, 2021 4 a.m. [From Martha D. MacBurnie, 4-4-2021 in response to “TGU — and me — on the virus and warfare analogy”: [Frank, can you ask the Guys why there’s not a more gentle way to transform society? Warfare, disease, famines, floods, revolutions – so violent! Wouldn’t you think there would be…

  • Papa’s Trial: Available now

    My favorite photo of Ernest Hemingway Papa’s Trial, now available in both print and electronic versions. (with my deepest thanks to my friend Chris Nelson of SNN Publishing). Short link for the print version: https://amzn.to/3uqZNJ0. For the ebook version: https://amzn.to/3uqZNJ0 For those who came in late, and don’t know what the novel is about: Reliving…

  • Hemingway on his three fears

    Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:15 a.m. If I learned anything from the first two parts of the Burns / Novick series on Hemingway, I don’t know what it would be. I have been more aware of what it had to leave out, than of what it said that I hadn’t known. But I am struck…

  • Hemingway and TGU on viewpoints

    Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:45 a.m. It took until now to sink in, Papa, but yesterday you said, “It was all me interacting with not-me.” I heard that at the time in its own context, but just now it strikes me: That’s practically a definition of fear, isn’t it? Me and not-me; separation, not unity.…

  • TGU on our connection with non-3D

    TGU on our connection with non-3D Friday, April 9, 2021 6:50 a.m. Any need to comment on Jane Coleman’s read on your response of April 5 to Martha MacBurnie’s question? [From Jane Coleman, 4-6-2021: [Seems to me that TGU cleared the shrubbery but didn’t yet get to Martha’s deeper question: why do we have to…

  • TGU on communication and miscommunication

    Saturday, April 10, 2021 Here’s the backstory: Friday, April 9, 2021 9:35 a.m. Highly satisfactory session. I guess we’ll get to Sue’s question and the internet interruption next time. Maybe I can lay out the basics here, so I don’t have to do it then. My telephone connection had developed a loud annoying buzz, but…

  • TGU on process and result

    TGU on process and result Sunday, April 11, 2021 3:35 a.m. All right, friends, you wanted a fresh start before addressing Sue’s question to me of last Wednesday that – the ILC group joked – fried the power in my internet connection. [Sue’s question: “Frank. What did you feel or think before you redirected attention…