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A journal of life pursued

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November 5, 2010

Review of Miscellany

“Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.” Continue reading

Books, Reading, Technology, Wisdom

beer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dante, Hamlet’s Blackberry, Melville, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, The Social Network, Zadie Smith
October 9, 2010

Blissful Saturday

So, I determined that today, after the morning visit to the farmer’s market, I would place my backside in my favorite and catch up. Continue reading

Books, Nature, Philosophy, Reading

Algonquin, Maine, Nietzsche, Settled in the Wild, Susan Hand Shetterly
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
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 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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