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July 20, 2010

Da Capo

“There is properly no history; only biography” ~ Emerson Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Philosophy, Reading, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Uncategorized, Writers

biography, Emerson, Francis Fukuyam, Julian Young, Mark Twain, Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 11, 2010

“a self-liberated man…”

“…one of the greatest essayists of our time.” Continue reading

Books, Literature, Writers, Writing

E.B. White, essay, essayist, The Millions
June 29, 2010

First sentences…

…his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Thinkers, Writers

Annie Dillard, Bernard Malamud, David Foster Wallace, E.B. White, First Sentences, Gabriel García Márquez, Guy Davenport, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Updike, José Saramago, Paul Bowles
June 25, 2010

Swann’s Way

From Mom and Dad, 12-25-81 Continue reading

Books, Literature, Memoir, Writers

Edmund White, Julian Barnes, Moncrieff, Nothing to be Freightend of, Proust, Swan’s Way
June 1, 2010

My Books

…we all think better of ourselves than we’ve yet to realize. Continue reading

Books, Philosophy, Reading

Books, Charles Sanders Peirce, Literature, Maine, Maryland, Susan Sontag
May 21, 2010

What do I know?

I have struggled through life as everyone else who has no family wealth, no special calling, no unique talent. Continue reading

Books, Family, Life, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy, Reading, The Examined Life

Know Thyself, Montaigne, The Examined Life

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