Please note that this is a personal newsletter written by Sofia Smallstorm. It is not “the news,” but rather a reflective way of sharing information.
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The Katha Upanishad
W. Somerset Maugham, born in 1874, was a doctor (who knew?) who never practiced medicine, instead choosing to write plays, short stories and novels. His works are considered masterful, among them Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919) and The Razor’s Edge (1944). Maugham was seventy when this novel was published, its title taken from the Katha Upanishad, one of the sacred Hindu Vedas or scriptures. Maugham had visited British India in 1938. “As soon as the maharajahs realized that I didn’t want to go on tiger hunts, but that I was interested in seeing poets and philosophers, they were very helpful,” he said. Continue reading July/August, 2022.
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Redox and Life Force
Biophysics as Boss
Here Comes the Sun
Mighty Ultraviolet
Back Issue: June 2015
Unintelligent Organisms
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Unintelligent Organisms
This Little Matter of Chemicals
Containing Our Waste
Nature’s Clean-up
Pollution, Dilution, Solution
Fertilizing the Language
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