Author: Tim Constant

Dreams are peculiar. While we are unconscious, our minds assemble loose narratives from lived experience that we take for granted as legitimately happening in real time. This is weird. We can see dead friends, be subjected to horrors, see the world's end, defy laws of physics, lose our teeth (a widespread and highly recurrent cultural … Continue reading On Dreams →

Introduction To The Introduction In my sophomore year I was a Zoology major for about 5 minutes. The only class I managed to take was some kind of "intro to zoos" course and in it we had to stuff a mouse - stuff as in taxidermy. There was no observable point to this exercise as … Continue reading Systema →

Introduction Somehow I escaped formal logic in high school. Perhaps it was because my graduating class boasted more pregnancies than diplomas, or maybe my head was too cloudy with hormones at the time to remember. But I am paying for it now because my son it smack dab in the middle of Ps and Qs, … Continue reading Modus Ponens →

"Charon, the Ferryman of Hell" by Gustave Dore "My son," the courteous master said to me"All those who perish in the wrath of GodHere meet together out of every landAnd ready are they to pass o'er the river,Because celestial justice spurs them on,So that their fear is turned into desire."Dante's Inferno, Canto III Dante imagines … Continue reading A Choice of Amens →

I was reading quotes from Anton Lavey’s The Satanic Bible yesterday, as one does when times are slow at work. What struck me was how, well, human it was. No goat worship or weird sex stuff with masks and torch-wielding voyeurs, just some dude telling other humans how to respond to situations in a normal, … Continue reading Makes Sense →

Two scientists walk along a yellow path in the forest and come to a divergence. "Look! In the middle of the path - three sticks arranged in the shape of an arrow. Think someone put it there to tell us which way to go?" "Yes. Too unlikely to have happened by chance" Same two scientists … Continue reading Two Scientists Diverged in A Yellow Wood… →

When an object approaches the speed of light, time slows. Once it matches light's speed, time stops altogether. Photons, packets of light, pure energy, do not experience time. Once a photon is emitted, hundreds of millions of years might elapse, but for the photon, zero time passes. Distance is also shortened as the speed of … Continue reading Eternal Light →

There is a brown leaf quivering on a naked branch outside my kitchen window that refused the Fall. In the biting wind it scratches at the sky, shivering with the malice only abandonment can bring.  Credit: Maxpixel.net It's odd when you think about an object moving with nothing touching it. Of course, I know it … Continue reading A Heap of Newton and Mixed Metaphors →

Woolly backs of cumulonimbus arched from grass to sky and filled the air between green and blue with titanium white. From behind the cloud, the sun airbrushed silver linings and glissaded to the earth in oblique angles of gold. Similar piles of celestial livestock herded slowly across the plains grazing on the happy prairie, shepherded … Continue reading The Remarriage →

Don't think Jacob was that swoll, but he knew how to get low I will be the first to admit I suffer from emotional constipation. Or perhaps it isn’t so much the constipation as the inability to digest life in such a way that produces emotional movements. As evidence of this, I spent two whole … Continue reading Love is a Bloody Nose →