Reading

May 6, 2010

The Limit of Anything is not a Natural Place

…together, the writing and the life, they make something of which I am unsure–but I am the student of that something, trying to be more sure. Continue reading

Books, Reading, The Examined Life, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Hemingway, Montaigne, Sartre, Socrates, The Examined Life, the personal essay, Writing

May 4, 2010

…the american dog tick…

…the words blood meal make me uneasy. Continue reading

Books, Dogs, Nature, Reading, Writers

Admiral Nelson, Benalmadena, Costa del Sol, Deer ticks, Gibraltar, James Fenimore Cooper, Maine, Portland trails, Portugal, Spain, Straight of Gibraltar, ticks, Trafalgar

April 26, 2010

Infinite Jest, Longfellow Books

This, this so-called culture in which we struggle to thrive, is a theme and subject of Infinite Jest. (But there are ever so many themes to IJ.) Culture has been sold off. Corporate America bought it and ate it for lunch, between two pieces of Wonderbread. It is an appetite that knows no satiation and… Continue reading

Literature, Reading, The Examined Life, Writers

David Foster Wallace, Goya, Infinite Jest, iPad, Kindle, Longfellow Books, Luddite, Portland

April 2, 2010