readings from a second story window

From Francis Fukuyama's book, The Origins of Political Order:

      "...social change is often not linear--that is, a process of constant small adjustments to shifting conditions--but rather follows a pattern of prolonged stasis followed by catastrophic change."

From The Birth of Classical Europe by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann:

     "...we call Polykrates a 'historical figure' and Minos a 'mythical' or 'legendary' figure. But this distinction would not have meant anything to a fifth-or fourth-century Greek. Myth and history existed on a continuum..."

From A Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tacklebox by Maj Ragain, and his poem, "They Have the Same Source,But Different Names":

     My books and I find our way out the door.
     Giles Goat Boy , hardcover, The I Ching, the Legge
     translation, and How to Master the Game of Poker.
     More pots and pans for the mind's kitchen.