I wasn’t the first person in my family to run off to San Francisco to join a movement of fringe countercultural weirdos that later somehow found itself at the vanguard of American elite culture.| www.benlandautaylor.com
Not long ago, during a discussion with a Zoomer colleague about how to find research material, I realized that he had never experienced internet search back when it was good.| www.benlandautaylor.com
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An’, taught by time, I tak’ it so – exceptin’ always Steam. From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see Thy Hand,…| The Kipling Society
I will never forget the sunset when I first saw the solar system with my naked eyes. I was standing on the deck of a boat plodding slowly through the Nile River, closer to Sudan than to the Mediterranean Sea. I had not yet seen the Egyptian night sky, so I was excited to be so far south, with so much unlit desert on either side. | Palladium Magazine