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New stuff is mostly on the blog and too vuluminous to chart here.
In
Memorium
Tom
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Brief Bio
"Family is
total poetry" — Friedrich Von Schlegel
Carol
| Claire | Ellen
| Chris | Ginny
| Annie | More
Congratulations,
Claire (distinguished UCSC scholar)
Congratulations,
Ellen (distinguished UCBerkeley scholar)
A Dozen Tom Christensens
from around the web
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Operations Department
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Tom's Book of Days: A trip
around the year
Book
of Days Home
On the Seasons and the Calendar
Monthly Installments:
January
| February | March
| April | May
| June | July
August
| September | October
| November | December
More Fun and Games
Grab Bag Home
Famous Last Words:
Deathbed Wit and Wisdom
Who's Sexier than
Po Bronson: The Literary Community Weighs In
The Best from A
to L and From M to Z
17 Reasons to Vote
for Dan Quayle (even if he's not running)
The Fish King:
Tom Wins Big
Pick That
Coup!
Herd
on the Street
Bush
Vows to Stay in Iraq
The Sleep of Reason: A Garland of Quotes (minimal
navigation) : Guillermo Cabrera Infante
on the sleep of reason | T.H. Huxley
on a little knowledge | Oscar Wilde
on a little sincerity | Frank Rizzo
on the streets of Philadelphia | Dwight
Eisenhower on the way things are now and then | Merle Haggard on freedom |
Anatole France on the equality of law | Shelley on beauty | Alicia
Silverstone on the deep and the light | Ava
Gardner on the deep and the shallow | Edgar
Poe on recognizing profundity | Abe
Lincoln on making distinctions | Gertrude
Stein on names and naming |
Laozi on mortal and immortal names |
Julio Cortazar on the truth of the heart |
Antonin Artaud on language and the incomprehensible |
Roland Barthes on the eroticism of
language | Wallace
Stevens on the unreal of what is real | Gary
Snyder on a fertile mind | L-F Celine on the downside of reality | Kenneth Rexroth on angels and pigs, ecstasy and disgust | Martin Luther on the evil of books | Jorge Luis Borges on imaginary titles | Pascal on brevity |
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Travel/World
Maya World (incomplete list; relocating to www.buriedmirror.com)
Maya
World home
Maya
calendar
Gods
of the Maya
Yaxche,
The Maya Tree of Life
Latest
news from Guatemala
Mayan
languages
New
Mayan Orthography
The
Mesoamerican context
Maya
numeric notation
see also Guatemala
Haiku, under "poetry"
below
Travels
in Central America
Antigua
Walls
Volcanos
of Lake Atitlán
Maximon
San Francisco (incomplete list; relocating to www.friscovista.com)
Beaux
Arts Architecture of Civic Center
Bouquets
to Art (de Young Museum)
Golden Gate Park
Asian Art Museum
Conservatory
of Flowers
Strybing
Arboretum
De
Young Museum
demolition
of the De Young Museum tower (32 pages of photos)
Northern California
Mendocino
Botanical Gardens
Pigeon
Point Lighthouse
Point
Cabrillo Lighthouse
Central California Coast
San
Simeon Indoor Pool
Oregon
Japanese
Garden, Portland
Asia
Press
Check in Singapore
Hong
Kong scenes
Europe
Canals
of Amsterdam
Oostende,
Belgium
South America
Long
Ago in Equador
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Editing and Publishing
Editing/Publishing Home
Tom's
Glossary of Book Publishing Terms
KHSU interview on publishing
How
to get a book published
Gutenberg and the Koreans
Away with Words!
Copyediting Shakespeare
Mercury House
MH
Chicano and Latin American Titles
MH
Fiction Titles
MH
Staff (and Intern) List
North Point Press
Original Writing
Writing Home
Nonfiction
Home
Chinese Jade
Dance Macabre: The Ballets of Céline
Dodgson's Dodges (On Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Books)
Getting Henry (On HH Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom)
A Horace Reading (On Horace Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales)
and, the Russian edition
Neanderthal Surrogate Application Exam
Polk, from The US-Mexican War
Quiting Quito
Spam I Am
Taoism and the Arts of China
Why the U.S. Can't Win the World Cup
The
Winged Sphinx (antiwar essay)
The
Yi jing (I Ching; also listed under poetry)
Random reading
How to cast a hexagram
About this rendering
Translations
of the Yi jing compared
All entries
in numeric order
Fiction
Arlecchino
Exercises
from The Alchemist's Daughter
(this page temporarily down)
Translation
Samples,
News, Links, Comment
To Dress a Shadow by Julio Cortázar
The Death of the Birds, by Virgilio Piñera
Reviews
Home
Review
of Eduardo Galeano's Book of Embraces
Review of Lewis Hyde's The Trickster
Review
of books on Eva Peron
Poetry
Poetry
Home
Guatemala
Haiku
The Piggy Sestina (children's poem)
My Father's Letter (juvenalia)
The
Yi jing (I Ching): a new rendering (with random casts)
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of page
Writing by Others / About Writers and Literature
Julio Cortazar
(see also: reviews),
nonfiction)
Lists of Links
Links Page (there is
now only one links page)
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Design and Visual Arts
The
Typehead Chronicles
Type
Classification
Leading
Horizontal
Spacing
Measure
About Faces
Akzidenz
Grotesk | Aldus | Antique
Olive
Avant
Garde | Avenir | Baskerville
Bembo | Bodoni | Bulmer
Caslon | Centaur | Galliard
Helvetica
(and Ariel) | Optima | Perpetua
(more
to come)
Graphic Design
on the design of Red Diaper Baby
book
design
design
for the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Paintings, Photos, Etc.
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Webwork
Webwork Home
web philosophy | on links |
paragraph indents
on frames | web tools |
how to do a screen capture |
understanding
hex color
About
Search Engines
If
Historical Figures Had Been Webmasters
How Many
Megapixels Is Enough?
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Tom's
Garden
Garden Home
Germinating
Station
Potting Tables
Keeping
Cats out of the Garden
Plant Pages
Pieris
japonica
Trachelospermum
jasminoides
Viola
'Etain'
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Photography
See also travel
Who
Tom?
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Department
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Other Fun Stuff
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Words, Words, Words
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