This is a post for Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the Exodus from Egypt, which starts tonight. It's on a subject, though, that at first sight doesn't seem to have much to do with the festival. Snakes. Snakes, not as a zoological but as a psychological reality. Snakes, not for what … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery
It's nighttime, and it's raining. I'm in a bedroom--my bedroom, I assume--in the three-story house on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, NJ, where my parents and I lived with my mother's parents until I was five. My father is with me. We're looking out the window at a rainy street, the glare of the … [Read more...]