by Daniel J. Travanti | Sep 15, 1990 | Essay
London 3:45pm Far down a long road! Thanks. The next play will have to hold great attractions, before I’ll give much of myself again. The theater is...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Sep 5, 1990 | Essay
Erich Fromm and C.S. Lewis go on about the kinds of love people feel. There’s love of a mother and father, lust which we call romantic love, charity, etc. I’m sure this view confuses a much simpler issue. Love is a feeling. This feeling gives pleasure,...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Aug 13, 1990 | Essay
Rennie Court Whenever I chose to climb over the fence, I’d find a broken board. Either completely separated from its post, or splintered at the spot where the nail secured it originally. About every fourth time there would be a large ripped end, there was...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Aug 9, 1990 | Essay
Rennie Court Words are dangerous. Like statistics, they are used to gain advantage and they are selected to prove the unproveable and to lie, if there be need. They are invented by cultures to spread particular propaganda, often to harm. They carry meanings that are...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Aug 6, 1990 | Essay
There is amusing foolishness in the scientific method which exasperates me. It is an irony that the scientific method is considered valid because it is precise and offers proof—physical proof—but it’s conclusions are expected to be temporary. By now so many of...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Jul 29, 1990 | Essay
Rennie Court London Se 2 Less and less matters. The history of each day is the history of human beings—the newspapers are telling us—the television says, too. This history is more than ever, mostly, to face the truth, about money. Goods and services....
