What's Going On?

Not much with me. We have been getting shorter hours at work, and I have been home. Too cold to go very much further than the convenience store or the chiropractor. Time has been spent reading, doing some posts, and watching Netflix. 

The only thing to share from reading for this post is Mirandola’s marvels 

Ultimately Pico’s work fascinates not least because it belongs somewhere close to the high tide of the written word, the last moment at which a manuscript library might hold any kind of answer to the mysteries of life, its books, in Wilson-Lee’s evocative phrase, ‘pieces in a limitless puzzle’. On his death bed two years earlier, in April 1492, Lorenzo had joked with Pico that he would have preferred not to die ‘till that day when I had fully completed your library’. It’s a poignant idea, not least in the distance between its hope and the possibility of its achievement. The same feels true of Pico’s ambition and the daring of his thought, as if it were a high-wire act between the proud towers of a city no-one visits anymore. Still, in his willingness to break the limits of language and seek what lay beyond the thinkable, Pico was exploring facets of collective human experience for which modernity has yet to find accommodation, never mind an explanation. Was it enough to have tried, then? Unequivocally, yes.

What an ambition.

My three most recent rejections:

Thanks for submitting “Problem Solving” to The MacGuffin. While our editors have decided to pass on this one, we’re grateful for the opportunity to review your work.

We appreciate your interest in The MacGuffin and hope that you will submit again. We wish you all the best in your writing endeavors.

Sincerely,

Gordon Krupsky
Managing Editor
The MacGuffin
macguffin@schoolcraft.edu
http://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/

This was for my play "Desperate Men Committing Desperate Acts":

Thank you for participating in the 2025 Miriam Chaikin Award for Writing Competition. We received hundreds of wonderful submissions, but unfortunately we can select only one winner. I’m sorry to have to inform you that this year you were not selected for this award.

If you are in the New York City region, we hope you can join us for a reading of the award winners at the Westbeth Community Room, 55 Bethune Street on May 8 at 7pm. 

And Donald J. Reump continues to prove himself Clown-in-Chief.

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