| 03/09/2008 |
Vol. 2, #205 I have been away for months... |
| 03/03/2008 |
Vol. 2, #204 Section 4 - A legal issue as well? |
| 02/11/2008 |
Vol. 2, #203 Section 3 - Introducing Mr. Sattvapalli |
| 02/04/2008 |
Vol. 2, #202 Section 2 |
| 01/28/2008 |
Vol. 2, #201 Section 1 |
| 01/14/2008 |
Vol. 2, #200 I've been away a long time. Not just from this column, but far earlier than that... |
| 06/18/2007 |
Vol. 2, #199 Superman as more of a process than a fixed creation |
| 05/21/2007 |
Vol. 2, #198 "Bleep" team to make "Unlikely Prophet"... |
| 04/02/2007 |
Vol. 2, #197 Consciousness Visiting (Part II) |
| 03/26/2007 |
Vol. 2, #196 Consciousness visiting. My arcane subject for today. |
| 12/25/2006 |
Vol. 2, #195 Problems Crossing the Border |
| 11/27/2006 |
Vol. 2, #194 Sometime in the mid-1940s, Dan Miller, proprietor of the local general store in the rural village of Springs, Long Island, New York, acquired a painting from his new neighbor, the painter, Jackson Pollock. I knew them both in those days. But it took me many years to figure out how it might have happened. |
| 10/23/2006 |
Vol. 2, #193 In writing these stories, my imagination often ran ahead of me. I tried to consider the meaning of these outsized heroes, |
| 10/09/2006 |
Vol. 2, #192 Superman didn't become the rescuer, the savior and upholder of the law because he was made that way on some other planet... |
| 09/18/2006 |
Vol. 2, #191 I frequently get mail from people especially fascinated by Superman's superpowers. Many of these writers are so enthralled with the possibility of achieving this themselves, they refuse to accept the fact that superpowers like the Man of Steel's are simply fictional ideas that have been around for a long time... |
| 09/11/2006 |
Vol. 2, #190 Maybe This is Something You Really Ought to Read |
| 08/14/2006 |
Vol. 2, #189 It's Not At All That You Think It Is |
| 07/16/2006 |
Vol. 2, #188 Some clarity on the insistence that Superman is real. |
| 07/05/2006 |
Vol. 2, #187 A reply to some interview questions |
| 06/19/2006 |
Vol. 2, #186 Most of us think of "reality" as the world made accessible by the five senses. But not always. |
| 05/29/2006 |
Vol. 2, #185 The Bill Finger Award |
| 04/24/2006 |
Vol. 2, #184 More on Tulpas |
| 04/10/2006 |
Vol. 2, #183 Reflections Beyond Reality |
| 02/06/2006 |
Vol. 2, #182 The Other Side of the Story |
| 11/28/2005 |
Vol. 2, #181 Mostly, when I write about Superman in this column, I'm trying to use that long and complex experience of creating that character in a way that both fitted in to what was required of me by my editors and yet to make the Superman image malleable enough to give it a sort of literary credence based on its archetypal roots |
| 11/21/2005 |
Vol. 2, #180 I've been away a long time, readjusting myself, you might say, combing through my life's experiences and how those experiences contributed to the way my memory works. |
| 10/10/2005 |
Vol. 2, #179 Can it be true that very religious countries like the United States have higher murder, STD and teen pregnancy rates than countries where belief in God is much lower? |
| 09/26/2005 |
Vol. 2, #178 Come to think of it, what's so special about Superman. A strange question? Not really. |
| 09/19/2005 |
Vol. 2, #177 Yes--Flying Is Really Something Special! |
| 09/12/2005 |
Vol. 2, #176 From time to time, I have been called "creative." So also have a lot of artists and writers. But none of us are, in fact, creative... |
| 09/05/2005 |
Vol. 2, #175 Never before in the history of the USA has such a gang of stumbling, bumbling, idiotic, inept and tragically-comic characters been able so effectively to muck up whatever real rescue attempts were possible had sane people been at the helm. |
| 08/29/2005 |
Vol. 2, #174 All day this Sunday, I've been glued to the TV, watching the dire prognostications for the oncoming hurricane, Katrina. |
| 08/22/2005 |
Vol. 2, #173 Last week, I felt compelled to wave my broom and shush away a long chain of pointless enquirie... |
| 08/15/2005 |
Vol. 2, #172 If you haven't read this past Sunday's Washington Post or NY Times, you probably don't realize that the Iraq war is now over... |
| 08/08/2005 |
Vol. 2, #171 Every society, advanced or so-called primitive, is held together by a common system of beliefs. |
| 08/01/2005 |
Vol. 2, #170 Where Is Your Other You? |
| 07/25/2005 |
Vol. 2, #169 The experience of consciousness visiting which I've tried to examine from different angles in previous columns still evades what I feel is a clear explanation. Perhaps to get clearer, I'm going to have to get muddier... |
| 07/04/2005 |
Vol. 2, #168 I've been thinking about the Man of Steel as a symbol... |
| 06/27/2005 |
Vol. 2, #167 Creators are sloppy people... |
| 06/06/2005 |
Vol. 2, #166 More on "Consciousness Visiting" |
| 05/16/2005 |
Vol. 2, #165 Scattered thoughts about what I call "consciousness visiting'". |
| 05/09/2005 |
Vol. 2, #164 Joy is not exactly the pure unsullied feeling many people think they're searching for. |
| 04/18/2005 |
Vol. 2, #163 In the modern world, Superman and the entire congeries of superheroes that followed in his wake represent the belief that the evil in the world is so powerful that it takes just such a superbeing to keep things sufficiently balanced so that men are not overwhelmed by the negative forces that keep us in constant conflict... |
| 04/04/2005 |
Vol. 2, #162 Maybe it's Spring. But at this time of year, I usually get more letters and email queries from readers who want to discuss the problem of "the self." |
| 03/28/2005 |
Vol. 2, #161 About Sword of Desire, an Alvin Schwartz Novel Hiding Behind a Pseudonym |
| 03/14/2005 |
Vol. 2, #160 I was asked whether there was a specific mythology from which I developed my Superman stories. It was an interesting question and I chose to make it the entire subject of this week's column. |
| 03/07/2005 |
Vol. 2, #159 Where does the self end and world begin? |
| 02/21/2005 |
Vol. 2, #158 I've been away for a while... In a way, you might say it was Superman's fault. |
| 01/31/2005 |
Vol. 2, #157 Snake Eyes |
| 01/24/2005 |
Vol. 2, #156 Well, because I knew better... |
| 01/10/2005 |
Vol. 2, #155 The Doldrums |
| 12/03/2005 |
Vol. 2, #154 Tsunami |
| 12/27/2004 |
Vol. 2, #153 From the Fortress of Solitude |
| 12/20/2004 |
Vol. 2, #152 Maybe I radiate in some unsuspected way. |
| 12/13/2004 |
Vol. 2, #151 I do not weep in wonder... I do not sigh with desire... |
| 12/06/2004 |
Vol. 2, #150 I realize today, of course, that the greatest classics have mostly been about superheroes... |
| 11/29/2004 |
Vol. 2, #149 Something's Still Calling Me |
| 11/22/2004 |
Vol. 2, #148 This week, I promised to present the beginning of my first novel, The Blowtop. |
| 11/15/2004 |
Vol. 2, #147 I promised readers that I would make available a copy of my first novel, The Blowtop. |
| 11/08/2004 |
Vol. 2, #146 At the beginning of this year, I wrote a column called "Make Sure You're Not Yourself Or You Won't Get Elected" |
| 10/25/2004 |
Vol. 2, #145 Nothing is quite clear to me anymore. And that's wonderful. |
| 10/11/2004 |
Vol. 2, #144 The End of Something is Always the Beginning of Something Else, Otherwise How Could Anything Have An End? |
| 10/04/2004 |
Vol. 2, #143 Never An End in Sight (Part III) |
| 09/27/2004 |
Vol. 2, #142 Two Way Time |
| 09/20/2004 |
Vol. 2, #141 Culture and Superheroes - For some time now, I have been trying to find a satisfactory explanation of the sudden appearance of the superhero within our culture towards the end of the thirties. |
| 09/13/2004 |
Vol. 2, #140 In a certain sense, we are all Supermen, at least Supermen of the mind. |
| 09/06/2004 |
Vol. 2, #139 So You Wanna Be Like Superman, Well Good Luck! |
| 08/30/2004 |
Vol. 2, #138 The Trouble with Superheroes |
| 08/23/2004 |
Vol. 2, #137 Remember That Old Platter? Back in the ancient days when men believed the earth was a platter and you could fall off the edge, they weren't so foolish as they may sound today. |
| 08/16/2004 |
Vol. 2, #136 Everyone I know, as I know them, are really imaginary. |
| 08/09/2004 |
Vol. 2, #135 I begin reflecting on what it took for me and many of my colleagues to write superhero stories, most particularly Batman and Superman. |
| 08/02/2004 |
Vol. 2, #134 Chickens and eggs, mothers and daughters, light waves revealed by the Hubbell telescope coming from millions of years ago, all of this, if looked at carefully, along with a whole host of causes and effects, should provide us with a very enlightening view of time itself. |
| 07/26/2004 |
Vol. 2, #133 Ever since the remarkable Stephen Hawking shook up the world of astrophysics with... |
| 07/19/2004 |
Vol. 2, #132 We get visited by the oddest, rarest, most unbelievable personalities you ever want to hear about, some of whom I never even knew existed. Like yesterday... |
| 07/12/2004 |
Vol. 2, #131 Mindset |
| 07/05/2004 |
Vol. 2, #130 So many practicing scientists seem to go to pieces at the mere notion of mysticism, feeling threatened by the word. Well, today, I'm going to threaten such people even more. |
| 06/27/2004 |
Vol. 2, #129 There's a Door in Your House You Ought to Use More Often |
| 06/20/2004 |
Vol. 2, #128 I fully accept the idea of evolution as set forth and advocated by Richard Dawkins, best known to the public as the author of The Selfish Gene. |
| 06/13/2004 |
Vol. 2, #127 Today is a special day. Because it's a special story and it concerns everybody, you and me, the superheroes, the religions, the visions, and certainly all of science. |
| 06/07/2004 |
Vol. 2, #126 Our Dreams Are Us But We Are Not Our Dreams |
| 05/31/2004 |
Vol. 2, #125 You can manipulate a model of the universe through what our instruments, at any stage of development, provide us. |
| 05/24/2004 |
Vol. 2, #124 The Driven Man |
| 05/17/2004 |
Vol. 2, #123 It took me two weeks... |
| 05/03/2004 |
Vol. 2, #122 According to the Eleatic philosopher Parmenides--there is only permanence with no change. |
| 04/19/2004 |
Vol. 2, #121 Just Because Nobody Sees It Doesn't Mean It Isn't There! |
| 04/12/2004 |
Vol. 2, #120 I'm a little late getting to the experiences I promised in visiting parallel worlds... |
| 04/05/2004 |
Vol. 2, #119 Old Age--It's Really Quite a Place! |
| 03/29/2004 |
Vol. 2, #118 Seeing Double |
| 03/15/2004 |
Vol. 2, #117 We are a car culture. So is the whole western world, but nowhere as in the US. As readers of this column know, I have a car that actually takes me back in time... |
| 03/08/2004 |
Vol. 2, #116 What's This About History Repeating Itself? |
| 03/01/2004 |
Vol. 2, #115 The Bush administration has long ago revealed what its essential pattern of behavior is... |
| 02/23/2004 |
Vol. 2, #114 Isn't it strange now that we've established that Dubya the Warrior really wasn't the big warrior he was made out to be... |
| 02/02/2004 |
Vol. 2, #111 I remember when Superman first popped into my awareness as a new addition to the comics page. A bland addition... |
| 01/26/2004 |
Vol. 2, #110 I Get a Flying Lesson |
| 01/19/2004 |
Vol. 2, #109 Fans of the superheroes, especially Superman, as the archetype of all comics superheroes, should get acquainted with the Greek notion of enantiodromia. |
| 01/12/2004 |
Vol. 2, #108 Make Sure You're Not Yourself or You Won't Get Elected |
| 01/05/2004 |
Vol. 2, #107 As the years creep up on me and memory provides such a rich tapestry of... |
| 12/29/2003 |
Vol. 2, #106 Hey, Alvin, take it easy! |
| 12/22/2003 |
Vol. 2, #105 A Christmas Carol 2003 |
| 12/15/2003 |
Vol. 2, #104 Some Realities About the Capture of Saddam Hussein |
| 12/01/2003 |
Vol. 2, #103 The joke, as I remember it, goes something like this.... |
| 11/24/2003 |
Vol. 2, #102 Today my mind has been fiercely preoccupied with a single word... |
| 11/17/2003 |
Vol. 2, #101 What? You think George Bush is one of those silly flat earth believers? |
| 11/03/2003 |
Vol. 2, #100 I get a lot of mail and Message Board comments on how great it would feel to be like Superman |
| 10/27/2003 |
Vol. 2, #99 Bush's Biggest Fiasco |
| 10/13/2003 |
Vol. 2, #98 I have been pontificating on this site for several years now. I've reached out from comics to a whole range of subjects, exploring a veritable universe of ideas. Why? |
| 10/06/2003 |
Vol. 2, #97 So I'm sitting there in the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria with Clark |
| 09/29/2003 |
Vol. 2, #96 George W. Bush is singlehandedly turning the US into a debt-ridden second rate power. And what can I do about it? |
| 09/22/2003 |
Vol. 2, #95 Take Your Time on this One! |
| 09/15/2003 |
Vol. 2, #94 Beware of Pushing Buttons with Untrained Hands |
| 09/08/2003 |
Vol. 2, #93 A lot of reasons have been given for the American Civil War |
| 09/01/2003 |
Vol. 2, #92 The Trouble with Jobs |
| 08/25/2003 |
Vol. 2, #91 One of the mysteries that has always intrigued me stems from... |
| 07/28/2003 |
Vol. 2, #87 I received the following from a visitor to The Round Table this week... |
| 07/21/2003 |
Vol. 2, #86 Why I'm Not So Bright |
| 07/14/2003 |
Vol. 2, #85 God and Free Will, in your morning papers this week! |
| 07/07/2003 |
Vol. 2, #84 I have had a remarkable experience recently. |
| 06/30/2003 |
Vol. 2, #83 I'm in the midst of what I think is a most important column... |
| 06/23/2003 |
Vol. 2, #82 Time to Turn the Corner |
| 06/16/2003 |
Vol. 2, #81 The Muddled Middle Democrats |
| 06/09/2003 |
Vol. 2, #80 The Real Self of Superman |
| 06/02/2003 |
Vol. 2, #79 A lot of interesting stuff in my personal mailbox this week. |
| 05/26/2003 |
Vol. 2, #78 And There's One More Thing You Probably Never Realized About Superman... |
| 05/19/2003 |
Vol. 2, #77 Reply to a Young Man's Letter |
| 05/12/2003 |
Vol. 2, #76 The American Empire |
| 05/05/2003 |
Vol. 2, #75 That swindle, as I call it, was all over the news--on TV and even the New York Times carried a big story on it. |
| 04/21/2003 |
Vol. 2, #74 We had been talking about selves as elements in systems and I wanted to hear more. |
| 04/14/2003 |
Vol. 2, #73 And here I was, sitting with Clark Kent who had just announced... |
| 04/07/2003 |
Vol. 2, #72 It began last Wednesday when our car broke down. Actually, it started, as it always does... |
| 03/24/2003 |
Vol. 2, #71 A Plague of Liars |
| 03/17/2003 |
Vol. 2, #70 The way things are going these days, I thought I'd just turn away from the whole mess for a while and try to resolve another kind of problem. |
| 03/10/2003 |
Vol. 2, #69 The fundamentalists are at war and the rest of the world is caught in-between! |
| 02/24/2003 |
Vol. 2, #68 Some Thoughts on the Placebo Effect |
| 02/17/2003 |
Vol. 2, #67 Bizarro-Bush has turned everything upside down. |
| 02/10/2003 |
Vol. 2, #66 Bizzaro and Nature |
| 02/03/2003 |
Vol. 2, #65 Dark Events Occupy the World |
| 01/27/2003 |
Vol. 2, #64 The field of quantum physics |
| 01/20/2003 |
Vol. 2, #63 Where I'm Going |
| 01/13/2003 |
Vol. 2, #62 This column boasts what looks like... |
| 01/06/2003 |
Vol. 2, #61 Just a Little Tiny Thing That Happened in the 20th Century |
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