Tag: Humboldt State University

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On the horn with Bill Devall

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date January 12, 2021

I spoke with Bill Devall only once. Our discussion took place via telephone. The call lasted approximately five minutes. Before our phone conversation, although we had never met, Bill Devall had played a seminal role in changing my life. In preparation for graduate school, I read Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. The book, […]

Tags arcata, Arne Naess, Bill Devall, Deep Ecology, George Sessions, Humboldt, Humboldt State University

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Thomas Pynchon is no Jim Dodge

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date December 23, 2020

“Some people think Jim Dodge is actually Thomas Pynchon.” Those words, followed by a broken chuckle from my professor, were all I needed to hear. I was transfixed. He had spoken the sentence with a mischievous implication of knowing. I looked about the room; nobody else appeared taken aback or affected. I half raised my […]

Tags california, Gravity's Rainbow, Humboldt, Humboldt State University, Jim Dodge, Mensa, Samoa, Sonoma County, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon