Issue 128 | The Sun Magazine

July 1986

Readers Write

Voices

Inner voice as intuitive guide, the undeniable presence of a voice, the voice of silence

By Our Readers
Quotations

Sunbeams

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

The Sun Interview

The “Face” On Mars

An Interview With Richard Hoagland

I realized that I was looking at something that was either a complete waste of time, or the most important discovery of the twentieth century if not of our entire existence on earth. There is no middle ground.

By Richard Grossinger
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Literal-Mindedness And Its Cure

For about fifteen minutes every day I worry about AIDS or herpes or Pentagon cost overruns. It’s not that they have any great effect on me, it’s just that I am a broad-based, categorical worrier.

By Ralph Earle
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Paul Griffith Reader

I may well be wrong in my impression that people exist who have not had to earn their spiritual lives by means of suffering. It is difficult if not impossible to know enough about a person to be able to make such a judgement on such a matter with any certainty.

By Paul Griffith
Fiction

Three Cities

A dozen men sit in comfortless plastic chairs staring at the floor. No one speaks. No one moves. Sunlight pours through yellow blinds into a room without time. It is clear that one is among the damned.

By Sparrow