By Susan Sechrist
The perception is that the underpinnings of science, numbers and math, are rigid and dull and anything that comes from them is rigid and dull. The basic underpinning of realistic fiction is that people must behave in ways that humans behave in real life… that underpinning is rigid and dull, too, but what comes from it can be glorious and inspiring. The same is true for what comes from numbers and math… Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
…margins are a sacred, liminal space; an invitation to converse with the author, the characters, and the concept of the book. Marginalia excavates the secret passageways that exist in every text, and is not just about adding words, it’s also about adding space. Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“…while you don’t need to be an artist to appreciate art, or a musician to love music, our culture seems to insist that only mathematicians do math.” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“The fiction is self-contained and self-referential; it can stand alone as a finished version of reality, albeit in a consensually-agreed upon, useful disguise.” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
…unlike the simplest mathematical hyperbola, with its matching twin curves riven and moving toward different infinities, these stories don’t reflect across an obvious boundary condition—there is no simple, congruent image on the other side… Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“Who in the world am I?… I’m sure I’m not Ada… and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! She knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she and I’m I and – oh dear, how puzzling it all is!…” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
The older we get, with maturity and wisdom, the more adventurous we can become. The segregation of complex ideas into distinct categories ceases to be useful or even necessary – what we once feared or needed some semblance of control over becomes the very source of our later-in-life creativity. Continue reading
Bloom 