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"The essays in this book center around the questions of love, wisdom, and knowledge through time. What is love in the twenty-first century? Is there a wisdom to marriage? Are our bodies ""naturally wise""? What is the nature of orgasm? The meaning of sex? The author uses examples from ancient authors such as Pascal, Marcus Aurelius, and Descartes to clarify the issue of the decay of wisdom and the relation of nature to science, while at the same time drawing on present-time social and cultural mores to ask the enigmatic question-Is there such a thing as ""stupid wisdom""? This is not a how-to book on becoming wise, but an interrogation of human wisdom in the Anthropocene. Will the ""speaking word-ape"" destroy itself as well as the environment it lives in? The Maya word for writer is ah tz'ib. It is comforting to know that the craft has a past written in stone. As I write words on paper that are then digitized, I am confronted with the reality of impermanence. When electricity dies, my words will vanish and there will be no nuance of this ah tz'ib left. But the brethren of the rock will exist until there is no more stone."

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"In his thought-provoking and yes, wise little book, Jack Remick poses variations on the question, ""What is wisdom?"" Is knowledge wisdom? Can wisdom become obsolete? Whatever you think of his conclusions, following the threads of the author's reasoning is a fascinating pastime. You may even find yourself drawn to sources you believed to be musty and irrelevant. Clearly the author has assimilated a vast wealth of philosophy and knowledge in his rich years of living and learning, even if, as he claims, a majority of it has been forgotten. In our digital world of distractions, it's good to be reminded that the answers to these questions cannot be Googled. The search for wisdom is all about the journey. -Catherine Treadgold, writer, editor, and former publisher of Coffeetown Enterprises Sometimes life regales us. Sometimes Jack Remick regales us with his astute wisdom about how we too can be wise. It would not be wise to miss these essays. Sometimes life is so beautiful that when wisdom is explained so eloquently, I shed tears of joy. -Larry Hitchcock, Influencer and Grumpy Apostate Remick is a teacher. ""How do you tell the young to step here if there is no shaping of the sound against the teeth?"" The sentences urge the reader toward wisdom. Is Wisdom the end-product or the deep look into the process? ""In the teeth and in the bone, in the muscles of the face, the shaping comes together and with it comes the telling. Without the telling we are not."" -Robert J. Ray"

In his thought-provoking and yes, wise little book, Jack Remick poses variations on the question, What is wisdom? Is knowledge wisdom? Can wisdom become obsolete? Whatever you think of his conclusions, following the threads of the author's reasoning is a fascinating pastime. You may even find yourself drawn to sources you believed to be musty and irrelevant. Clearly the author has assimilated a vast wealth of philosophy and knowledge in his rich years of living and learning, even if, as he claims, a majority of it has been forgotten. In our digital world of distractions, it's good to be reminded that the answers to these questions cannot be Googled. The search for wisdom is all about the journey. -Catherine Treadgold, writer, editor, and former publisher of Coffeetown Enterprises Sometimes life regales us. Sometimes Jack Remick regales us with his astute wisdom about how we too can be wise. It would not be wise to miss these essays. Sometimes life is so beautiful that when wisdom is explained so eloquently, I shed tears of joy. -Larry Hitchcock, Influencer and Grumpy Apostate Remick is a teacher. How do you tell the young to step here if there is no shaping of the sound against the teeth? The sentences urge the reader toward wisdom. Is Wisdom the end-product or the deep look into the process? In the teeth and in the bone, in the muscles of the face, the shaping comes together and with it comes the telling. Without the telling we are not. -Robert J. Ray

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Jack Remick - poet, novelist, essayist

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