…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

The Nervous Breakdown

May 2, 2012

Bookends

Miscellany end-of-week links on books and reading. Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Literature, Memoir, Writers, Writing

Joan Didion, Moby Dick, Montaigne, Nathaniel Hawthron, Settled in the Wild, Susan Hand Shetterly, The Library of America, The Nervous Breakdown, The Paris Review, Writing
February 18, 2011

…walking across town.

…all god’s creatures gotta poop… Continue reading

Dogs, Life

Dogs, Maine, Portland, Samuel Johnson, The Nervous Breakdown
December 2, 2010

Rimbaud

The phrase, “The books never came…” breaks my heart. Continue reading

Books, Life, Literature, Memoir, Writers

Longfellow Books, Modern Libary, poetry, poets, Rimbaud, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown
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 15, 2010

Walk On!

“I think of walking as a metaphor for–or, more properly, a metaphor against–modern life. It is a symbol of pre-modernity.” Continue reading

Philosophy, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Buddhism, Modernity, Neitzsche, Strolling, The Nervous Breakdown, Thoreau, walking

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