Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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Memorial day hike. Inspired by a waterfall.
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An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (1987) Summary: Dillard describes her childhood. She is an explorer, a collector, a drawer. Her feelings of living involve tales of snowball fights, sisterhood and the strange antics of her parents. She confides in the reader her most desperate moments of rage and the strange claustrophobia of being a…
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The Panda’s Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould (1980) Summary: In this series of essays, Gould talks about evolution. He covers theories about dinosaurs, encephalic quotients and Larmarckian notions of taking your evolution by the horns so to speak. Gould emphasizes that science is quintessentially a human endeavor and there will always be biases towards on…
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I don’t know if the photograph of the painting gives the work too much credit or doesn’t do it justice. The colors shift with the lighting, with the levelness of the painting. So recently worked on, it won’t lay flat. The wave has waves, everything is warped anyway. People will see what they want to…
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Ken’s Guide to the Bible by Ken Smith Summary: Smith parses down the bible, The Old Testament, The New Testament and some Gospels and other such ancillary texts, showing the bible’s pastiche nature. It is a book that points out (as it says on its cover) the violence, sex, absurdity and weirdness that Christians so…
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Summary: Vowell’s series of essays relating to patriotism, history and colonialism is fascinating and makes me feel like I am not alone in the slight unease of being proud to be a United-Statesian. The prose is personal and contemporary. It feels like you’re speaking to a friend who…
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