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March 5, 2013

Pinsky, Hegel, Nietzsche, Chatwin, & Faulkner

I am at my most alert to cosmic inconsequence when I deal with my darkest concerns. Continue reading

Death, Life, Philosophy, The Examined Life, Writers

Bruce Chatwin, Chatwin, Faulkner, Friedrich Hegel, Hegel, Nietzsche, Pinsky, Robert Pinksy
March 4, 2013

The Burning Purity of Creativity.

I’ve been thinking about obscurity. This comes on the heels of my post last Friday, A Fashion of Discomfort, where I ponder this business of playing to an empty house, toiling for the sake of the effort without promise of recognition. Do you recall the post I put up last summer, where, while exploring the Continue reading

Creativity, Photography, Writers

Alan Watts, Creativity, Emily Dickinson, Vivian Maier, Zen
February 26, 2013

Corners of My Mind

Eliot was close. April might be cruel, but February sucks. Continue reading

Writers, Writing

George Saunders, Henry David Thoreau, John Stuart Mills, Peter Matthiessen, T.S. Eliot
February 25, 2013

Writers on Reading

“Hemingway took me around to Gertrude Stein’s. I wasn’t quite at home there. A Buddha sitting up there, surveying us.” Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Writers, Writing

E.B. White, Gabriel García Márquez, John Barth, John Dos Passos, Katherine Anne Porter, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote
February 20, 2013

OS v1.0

“How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.” Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Writers, Writing

Jim Harrison, poetry, poets, Susan Sontag, Writing
February 14, 2013

Valentine’s Day

I am by nature dismissive toward the artifacts of mass consumption. Continue reading

Writers

F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Valentine’s Day

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