…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Bruce Chatwin

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
January 22, 2013

Travel Bitching.

Travelers are tribe nomads without the communal grace of a tribe. Continue reading

Travel, Writing

Bruce Chatwin, Maine, Travel, Writing
June 1, 2012

The False Cross (Part I)

“They fancy themselves full-throated adventurers…” Continue reading

Adventure, Writing

Bruce Chatwin, Patagonia, short story, Writing
April 3, 2012

Of writers.

I went to Prague seeking Kafka… Continue reading

Memoir, Travel, Writers, Writing

Bruce Chatwin, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Kafka, Travel, Writers, Writing
March 27, 2012

The last best place.

When you find your place, take note. You’ve made an important discovery. Continue reading

Books, Curiosity, Reading, Travel

Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar, Travel, Writing
November 12, 2010

My New Library Card

There are some books I want to read and own. And there are some I want to just read. Continue reading

Books, Reading, Technology, Writing

Bruce Chatwin, Hamlet’s Blackberry, libraries, library, Maine, Portland Public Library, Virginia Woolf, William Powers

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