Donleavy, The Ginger Man (1958)
(1999-02-20) Painting Juliet (Catherine Merriman, read by Andy Rivers) Juliet's boyfriend is an artist, but he has never wanted to paint her portrait. Why does he change his mind?
'Children of Thunder': Justin Helzer (left) and his brother, Glenn Taylor Helzer (right), were sentenced to death in 2005 for murdering five people as part of a plot to extort $100,000 to launch a religious group
— J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man (1958)
(1999-01-01; Rpt) Where Three Roads Meet (wri/dir Don Taylor)
Zhu Xi posits an ontological and causal continuity between the celestial and terrestrial realms, as well as between the animal and plant species and humanity. Indeed, there is no categorical difference between human beings and other life forms. Against this backdrop, Zhu carefully observed anomalies and sketched explanations based on the general ideas available to him. For example, when observing fossils of seashells atop a mountain, Zhu noted that the area had once been a seabed and hypothesized that the earth formerly was softer and more fluid and that, through wave motions, this seabed later rose to become a mountain top. Meanwhile, the entire earth dried as it grew older. While this explanation was not rigorous or determinate enough to count as a scientific hypothesis; Zhu appealed only to naturalistic concepts and principles in his comments. Zhu made quantitative measurements of plant growth. Zhu once heard a monk’s claim that one can see evidence of the nourishing powers of “night vapor” by observing bamboo sprouts, which grow twice as fast at night as during the day.
