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A Black Friday offer for paid subscribers
Dear readers, I want to take the opportunity this Thanksgiving weekend to express my gratitude for your support of Beautiful Eccentrics. Without it, I…
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How To Do Chess with Words
Is chess better than art?
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The Annual Beautiful Eccentrics Holiday Edition
Dear readers, It is hard to believe that since January of 2021, when Beautiful Eccentrics first launched, I have shared with you close to 160 columns…
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Comparative Unreadabilities
The journey of James Elkins, from art history to fiction.
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Ten of Swords
An assignment on Endingness.
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The Social Cartographer's Tale
(A parable).
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October 2023
Chuquicamata (excerpt)
Mining the museum (reprised).
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Lacrimosa, Convivencia, the Book of Games
Diakonia, a Swedish human rights organization that focuses on protecting vulnerable communities, is providing a nearly daily account of the resurgence…
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(All Too) Human Resources
Dissecting the job interview.
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The Canterville Artist
On incompetent ghosts and the search for normality.
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September 2023
Creditable Unrealities
Building façades as art and metaphor.
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A Pedagogical Shorthand
BTW, FTW, ILY, CYA, NSFW, FWIW. These basic Gen Z -favored abbreviations might appear largely impenetrable to those of us who belong to older and…
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