Tremors</h1> <article> <h1>Tremors</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:12:35 +0000</p> <p></p>“It does not take a long time,” said madame, “for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?” “A long time, I suppose,” said Defarge. “But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. In the meantime, it is […] </article> <article> <h1>Sweet oblivion</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:07:03 +0000</p> <p></p>According to the Associated Press, the term “conspiracy theory” first appeared in print over 100 years before the CIA used it as a blanket dismissal of anyone who questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Provenance accepted into evidence. Let the record also show, however, that our shapers of public opinion have adopted the term […] </article> <article> <h1>Praise request</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 21:50:42 +0000</p> <p></p>“So, as you read the situation, she’s praising you by inviting you to stand up at her birthday party and praise her? In what world does that even make sense?” “In the real world. I’ve told you about it. People are nice to each other there.” “Sing praises to my holy name.” “We can leave […] </article> <article> <h1>Club Mediocrity</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:33:01 +0000</p> <p></p>“I just wish they’d self-deprecate in the first person singular,” he says, “instead of electing me a de facto member of the club.” I ask him why he cares what they think about themselves or about him by association, or even about how they work through their insecurities. “Couldn’t it be that they’re just making […] </article> <article> <h1>Escape velocity</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:11:07 +0000</p> <p></p>One cliched but reliable sign of aging is the sense that time is speeding up. We round a bend in the road and see a speck on the horizon that we know is where a long and uncertain journey will end, or can end, perhaps even without incident, and it’s only natural that we pick […] </article> <article> <h1>Death on Laputa</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:05:21 +0000</p> <p></p>Dream Diary I’m standing inside a lovely Frank Lloyd Wright-style house at the edge of an invisible city that floats above the Earth. My view through the sliding glass door is of clouds rolling by and occasional glimpses of whatever is beneath us on the surface of the planet. Between the house and the edge […] </article> <article> <h1>Invasion</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:07:36 +0000</p> <p></p>Dream Diary I’ve just arrived on Earth with a small and apparently rogue human-but-extraterrestrial invasion. I have the vague sense that we’re from Mars and that we’re not supposed to be invading. I’m one of the invaders. Everyone in my landing party but me is inside an office building that we’ve taken over; I’m outside […] </article> <article> <h1>Classroom</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:46:06 +0000</p> <p></p>Dream Diary SCENE 1: I’m attending class in a vintage high school building … wooden floor, plaster walls, large windows, standard school desks. Vey much like the high school I attended in waking life. All the students in the class are adults. I tell one of them that I’m going to take the day off […] </article> <article> <h1>Lunch interrupted</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Fri, 27 May 2022 16:04:05 +0000</p> <p></p>Dream Diary NOTE: During this dream, I have the vague sense that everything that’s happening has happened before, perhaps only moments earlier. Did I dream the same dream twice last night? I’m in a relatively empty shopping mall with dark areas all around where I assume stores have gone out of business. I’m there looking […] </article> <article> <h1>Surveillance</h1> <p>Tim Brosnan — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:33:23 +0000</p> <p></p>Dream Diary A woman and I are being pursued by unknown assailants. In an interior hall on the second floor of an older wood frame house, I tell her that I love her and she says she love me, too. We’ve known each other for a long time, but might not have said this to […] </article> </main></body></html>