10. Swerve I
In this far ranging and fetching introduction to the term \u201cswerve\u201d\u2014the first of two (saving its application to Lucretius and his brand of Epicurean thought to our next meeting)\u2014we carve around the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE), the nature of sermons, the polysemy nature of the term, Brancusi\u2019s \u201cBird in Space,\u201d the Bill Murray-cast film adaption of \u201cThe Razor\u2019s Edge,\u201d Ross Macdonald\u2019s short story \u201cThe Guilt-Edged Blond,\u201d Paul Davies\u2019 HOW TO MAKE A TIME MACHINE, The Hardy Boys, Dashiell Hammett\u2019s \u201cFlitcraft Parable,\u201d the literary term \u201cvolta,\u201d Sophocles\u2019 \u201cOedipus Rex,\u201d John Ashbery, chance and chaos processes, and variation on a line by Robert Creeley. To note, this call to swerve chronologically is our first session.