Monthly Archives: December 2016

Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Scott Abbott

March 1950, Farmington, New Mexico In what will become our hometown, good citizens report seeing flying saucers for three days running. Between eleven and noon each day the alien craft thrill residents of this border town. I was born seven … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Immortal from Lance Olsen

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Scott Abbott

Lance Olsen, author of the provocative and thoughtful and formally playful Nietzsche’s Kisses, [[there. ]], Theories of Forgetting, and other books I haven’t yet read, posted these thoughts about Immortal for Quite Some Time: :::: I happily don’t exactly know what to call … Continue reading →

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Review of Immortal for Quite Some Time

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Scott Abbott

the final paragraph of an enthusiastic and critical review: I don’t mean to sound antagonistic to Abbott or this wonderful, frustrating, troubling, vitally important book. I believe the book shows us the divide in front of us when it comes … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Scott Abbott

This is not a book. This is a work in the making for quite some time (a little over 25 years). It is the nature of such work to extend itself directly into its maker. Indeed, from the moment Scott … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Scott Abbott

Recognize as a characteristic of all human striving for truth that it is fragmentary, and that it is precisely this which distinguishes it from nature’s infinite coherence. –Søren Kierkegaard from Immortal for Quite Some Time sketch by Benno Alfred Maria Turke, … Continue reading →

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An enthusiastic review

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Scott Abbott

posted on the Amazon site by a writer whose work I admire, pd mallamo: GLOWING prose, terrible journey, a beloved brother’s decline and death – an utterly fascinating time capsule/snapshot of late 20th/early 21st century Mormonism. Above all, this is … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Scott Abbott

Stretching a weekend by driving all night from New Mexico to northern Colorado, anxious to see his dying mother one more time, battling a spring snowstorm, thirty miles short of the destination, Dad miscalculated (or dozed off?) and sent the … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Scott Abbott

1965, Long Beach, California, and Farmington, New Mexico Escorted by Mormon leaders, our Explorer Scout troop travels to Southern California. Words fail me the next Sunday when I try to describe what we saw on the beach. I cup my … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Scott Abbott

“Are we friends, my brother? ” That question undoes me every time I read it. My fragmentary essay ended with the words: “Merry Christmas, Mom. I love you dearly.” John added sentiments that quicken my heart: “you too my brother!” … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Scott Abbott

Dream: I was working feverishly on a puzzle, matching one set of colored squares with another. I left for a minute. When I returned I found that John had rearranged them. I beat him up. from Immortal for Quite Some Time

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