Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming If the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut had been a social psychologist — and thank goodness he wasn’t, because the gr

Bob Morrissey Even though I’ve spent a lifetime taking liberties with the English language, it still rankles me when others do — which is why my recent visit to a Tim Hortons drive-thru left such a bad taste in my mouth. It was three o’clock in the afternoon. I was their only customer. “I’ll have the sausage/egg combo,” I say into the speaker to the woman taking my order. “No can do,” she says. “You’re four hours too late. The breakfast menu ends at 11.” “Why?” I ask. She rep

A Longitudinal Follow-up Inquiry into Recursive Name-Retrieval and Narrative Non-Arrival Journal of Advanced Anecdotal Dynamics (JAAD) Vol. 42, Issue 1 (Special Issue on Narrative Drift and Cognitive Meandering) Dr. Parker Peps, PhD Department of Interpersonal Chronodynamics Mid-Atlantic Institute for Applied Semiotics Abstract This paper advances a unified theoretical model for what we term Gerontological Overdetailing Syndrome  (GOS), a behavioural phenomenon characterized