The third branch of Jacques Roubaud s epic, Proustian Great Fire of London, Mathematique is also an excellent entrance into the series. Adopting math as a career relatively late in his studies, Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical, while also investigating the role of[...]
Master of meditation, social visionary, artist, poet--Chogyam Trungpa was all these and more. Yet "Who was Chogyam Trungpa?" is a slippery question, for who can nail down the personality of a man who by all accounts seemed to be a different person to different people at different times and on differ[...]