Monthly Archives: February 2017

The World’s Most Perfect Obituary

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Brooke Williams has just reviewed my Immortal for Quite Some Time for Salt Lake’s 15 Bytes. The review begins with these paragraphs: The first thing I read on opening Scott Abbott’s Immortal for Quite Some Time was that “This is not a … Continue reading →

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Clouds

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Scott Abbott

A sequence of photos taken yesterday give a sense for the changing sky.

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When Non-Readers Review

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Scott Abbott

They did, in fact, publish it. Good for them. The reviewer, who responded, didn’t engage with any of my points. … After the New York Review of Books published an aggressively idiotic review of The Moravian Night, I sent a letter to … Continue reading →

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Walking the Body-Mind

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Grateful to have an essay in the new issue of saltfront, sharing space with a beautiful poem by Heather Holland and a heartbreaking story by Larry Menlove. See their website HERE

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Good morning Terry, sunny here on our mountain for the first time in days. And a quiet Sun-day morning to read your book. I read it front to back and then again back to front. As you mentioned on facebook, … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Arithmetic

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Scott Abbott

My dad was a school teacher (vocational agriculture at first, then science and math for 7th grade). He became a Junior High principal and collected a few pedagogical chestnuts like this 1849 volume: Lest the inexperienced teacher lack the necessary … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Scott Abbott

From Walter Jens’ history of the University of Tübingen: “In 1810 a student reported to the dean that a fellow student had saved him from drowning. The majority of the University Senate voted to award the Samaritan, but Chancellor Autenrieth … Continue reading →

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Jazz for a Wintery Day

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Scott Abbott

My son Tom makes his living in and around New York City with his clarinet and saxophones. Here’s a good recording of him with Baby Soda, a group of musicians devoted to jazz from early New Orleans.  

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Review of Immortal for Quite Some Time by Steve Peck

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Steve posted these thoughts on Goodreads and on Amazon: Scott Abbott’s book was devastating. Its fearless reflections and meditations on his life and his brother, held a mirror to my own. The work left me with numerous questions about how I have … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Immortality

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Can you do math? It’s a yes-or-no question. Give me the courtesy of a straight answer to my simple question. Yes. Try this then. There were three people who checked into a hotel room that cost thirty dollars a night. … Continue reading →

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