Occasional Writings

"One by one my leaves fall. One by one my tales are told." – Enya

Here are the names of the topics:

Various Topics

• Abolishing the Line
• Anatomy of a Decipherment
• Blessing and Curse
• The Bookcase
• The Chip
• Con-sternation
• Do We speak the same Language?
• Dreaming
• Emily Predicts the Web
• Endnotes and Multiple Editions in HTML
• Forgetting
• Gerineldo
• Good Merchandise -- A Tale based on the Midrash
• The Governor, the Rabbi, and the Beast of Burden.
• From the Early History of Computing
• His Question and Mine
• My Virtual Closet
• FARBLE
• The Physicist's Onions
• Rabbi Mortera on Charlatans
• Selkirk, Burgh and Earl
• Shoelaces: An Anecdote
• A Special Lady
• A Visit with Rebbi Bouaz
• A Letter from Charles Virolleaud
• What's in a Name?
• What is Poetry?
• A Folktale for our Time
• You shall Treat them as Holy

Translations

• Happiness --Anonymous
• Electricity --Translation of Die Beiden by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• From the Poetry of St. Teresa of Avila
• A Little Thought --Immanuel of Rome
• The Triumph of Bacchus -- Laurence the Magnificent
• A new translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin – Canto the First
• A new translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin – Canto the Second
• A new translation of Johannes Buxtorf's Synagoga Judaica – Juden-schül
  
• See also the translations from Judeo-Arabic

Verse

• Allergic Man
• The Ubus

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