…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Susan Sontag

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
April 7, 2010

“What I really wanted was every kind of life…”

…yearn for the difficult. The common is just that, common. Continue reading

Life, Literature, Photography, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom, Writing

Montaigne, Philosophy, Stephen Hall, Susan Sontag, The Examined Life, Wisdom
July 8, 2009

On dying

The big questions generate itches only I can contort to reach. Continue reading

Death, Dogs, Family, Life, Memoir, Writers

death, dying, Jim Harrison, Susan Sontag, Tibet
July 6, 2009

Why do we take pictures?

Photographs are not so much possessions as they are spirits, even memory incarnate. Continue reading

Family, Memoir, Photography

Garry Winnogrand, Malraux, Photography, Robert Frank, Susan Sontag, World War Two, Zeno’s paradox

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