“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

—Francis Bacon
(1561–1626)

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WRITER DROPPINGS

Poetry is what poets make. Droppings is what the doers and the movers make.

[ PUBLISHED ARTICLES ]

A Foreigner Watching Czech Ritual
    published in The College, the alumni magazine of
    St. John's College, autumn 2004

Where Has All the Free Time Gone?
    an interview with Dr. Douglas Pressman in The Messenger,
    the journal of the Department of English, Faculty of Education,
    Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, winter 2003

Writing at St. John's College
    St. John's College, student life brochure, 2002

[ ST JOHN’S COLLEGE ESSAYS ]

The New Contoured World: Minkowski's Construction of Spacetime
    2002 SJC Mathematics Essay Prize

On Kurt Gödel's On Formally Undecidable Propositions
    2001 SJC Mathematics Essay Prize

Reconciling Number and Magnitude in light of the Infinitesimal
    2001 SJC Mathematics Essay Prize    (Galileo vs. Cantor)

The Enervating Magic of Place: Hawthorne on the Individual
    (The Custom House)

Four out of Five Mathematicians Agree: Riemann is God
    (On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry)