Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

These might be the mutterings of an old curmudgeon, but I still don’t get why beach volleyball is an Olympic sport. (See here, for example.) As far as the uniforms for the parade of nations are concerned (the opening ceremonies are … Continue reading →

Via Remember Singapore, I am reblogging below a history of the Garden City’s famed “Road Safety Park”:

I wrote the first draft of “Gödel’s Loophole” in 2012, and it was published in the Capital University Law Review in 2013. Since then, it has been cited by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker (see here) and has garnered … Continue reading →

I could not help but contemplate our mortality as well as our moral obligations to our ancestors after visiting the great monoliths of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), so among other things, I revised and corrected my homage to my father … Continue reading →

Although this year’s “Christmas in July” gift is for a specialized audience, I would still like to shout out a call for proposals (see here or here) from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The deadline is this Friday, 26 … Continue reading →

Here is how this Wikipedia entry begins: “Hoa Hakananai’a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island. It was taken from Orongo [a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of the island] in 1868 by the crew of a British ship … Continue reading →

Although this thread does not include the Easter Island monoliths, I loved the aerial view of the Great Pyramid of Giza as well as the photo of the Shanhai Pass:

The mysterious monoliths of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), called moai (see here), have always fascinated me. What an incredible feat of human ingenuity! Alas, according to my guide, the original inhabitants of this beautiful island became embroiled in feuds and … Continue reading →

I heard this song somewhere in Santiago de Chile last week — on the afternoon of 18 July, according to Shazam — and what a fitting title, considering that I will be on a well-deserved sabbatical until the end of … Continue reading →