Happy birthday, Robert M. Pirsig.

Readings for the hour of the wolf:

1. The Shining of May 29 (2002) and
2. For John F. Kennedy's Birthday (2006).

Yesterday was Arthur Koestler's birthday.

 "By groping toward the light
we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is
around us."

-- Arthur Koestler,
The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118