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Anecdotal Evidence
'Like an Enormous Yes' When my brother and I were growing up, books about the sort of music we liked – blues, jazz,...
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'Like an Enormous Yes'

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When my brother and I were growing up, books about the sort of music we liked – blues, jazz, country, some rock – were hard to find. Today, of course, the market is flooded with everything from fanboy gush to unreadable academic tracts. An exception in the sixties was the English...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers' Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life...
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'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers'

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Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-47), died at the age of thirty-one after a life spent mostly as a soldier, though he lived for some time in Paris and was befriended by Voltaire. His health was never good. No longer in the army, Vauvenargues died of complications...
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Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by...
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What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader

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In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Old Men Are Generally Narrative' A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives...
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'Old Men Are Generally Narrative'

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A blunt fact of modern life: When young, everyone we knew – family, friends, neighbors – lives nearby. Our lives are well-populated. With age, that alignment of geography and acquaintance attenuates. Live long enough and our birthplace turns incrementally, across the decades,...
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The American Scholar
Streams of Consciousness A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first...
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Streams of Consciousness

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A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters The post Streams of Consciousness appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Every Garden Is a Vast Hospital' On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted...
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'Every Garden Is a Vast Hospital'

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On Saturday I saw the first hummingbird of the season in our front garden. I’ve counted eight butterfly species there this summer and found a monarch chrysalis hanging from a tropical milkweed plant. Brown and green anoles have densely colonized the garden, which has never been...
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The American Scholar
Horse and Runner The post Horse and Runner appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Horse and Runner

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The post Horse and Runner appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Writer Relies on Instinct and Intuition' V.S. Pritchett is asked in his Paris Review interview, “Do you think living and writing conflict?”...
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'A Writer Relies on Instinct and Intuition'

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V.S. Pritchett is asked in his Paris Review interview, “Do you think living and writing conflict?” – a rather silly question -- and he replies: “I have always thought that life and literature are intermingled and that this intermingling has been my quest.” Spoken like the kind of...
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The American Scholar
{…} by Fady Joudah Poems read aloud, beautifully The post {…} by Fady Joudah appeared first on The American Scholar.
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{…} by Fady Joudah

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post {…} by Fady Joudah appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the...
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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition

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Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent and could not bear. To cope with the aching helplessness, I developed a private...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Shakespeare of the Essay Form' “ordinary sanity in extraordinary prose”  The phrase is the American poet David Mason’s in his essay...
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'The Shakespeare of the Essay Form'

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“ordinary sanity in extraordinary prose”  The phrase is the American poet David Mason’s in his essay “The Freedom of Montaigne.” In characterizing the Frenchman and his essays, Mason describes an ideal seldom attained and occasionally scorned. Today, extreme, sweeping statements...
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The American Scholar
“Dead Man’s Hand” The post “Dead Man’s Hand” appeared first on The American Scholar.
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“Dead Man’s Hand”

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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Ten-pound Life Will Give You Every Fact' On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight,...
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'A Ten-pound Life Will Give You Every Fact'

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On this, the tenth anniversary of poet-historian Robert Conquest’s death at ninety-eight, let’s recall the sonnet he wrote about the treachery of biographers, “Second Death”:  “A ten-pound Life will give you every fact -- Facts that he’d hoped his friends would not rehearse To a...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Delight Crowns All My Days, and Here I’ll Die' R.L. Barth has been translating the epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis – the first-century...
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'Delight Crowns All My Days, and Here I’ll Die'

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R.L. Barth has been translating the epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis – the first-century Roman poet Martial, as we know him – for more than forty years and now has self-published a collection of 104 of his translations (of the 1,561 Latin originals extant): Pleasing the...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Book That Everybody Can Understand' A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has...
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'A Book That Everybody Can Understand'

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A partner at the Houston law firm where my youngest son is working as an intern this summer has loaned him two nineteenth-century law books. Both were compiled by John G. Wells (1821-80) and were bestsellers in their day, long before the practice of law was fully...
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The Marginalian
How to Be a Happier Creature It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out...
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How to Be a Happier Creature

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It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and slippery, gills trembling with the shock of air, fins budding feet, limbs growing sinewy and furred, then unfurred, spine...
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Escaping Flatland
A constellation of lookers Fragments, vol. 5
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A constellation of lookers

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Fragments, vol. 5
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Only a Facsimile That Is Called Literature' I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive,...
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'Only a Facsimile That Is Called Literature'

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I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive, relaxed states of consciousness. I’m awake but almost empty. I might be taking a shower or staring out the window at nothing. That’s when I occasionally find myself in an old song or...
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The Elysian
We could return three continents of land to the wild And create an interspecies future that benefits humans and ecologies alike.
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We could return three continents of land to the wild

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And create an interspecies future that benefits humans and ecologies alike.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Put Out Their Eyes When It Was Dark' “The man who is both happy and an optimist is an imbecile.”  Happiness has always felt like the...
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'Put Out Their Eyes When It Was Dark'

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“The man who is both happy and an optimist is an imbecile.”  Happiness has always felt like the byproduct of life properly lived, not a goal unto itself. If I “behave” – live up to my own standards, not exaggerate my importance, pay minute attention to my conscience, respect...
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The American Scholar
Hundreds and Thousands The post Hundreds and Thousands appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Hundreds and Thousands

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The Marginalian
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the... “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one...
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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Given that the deepest measure of intelligence is a...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Seemed to Think Lucidity All-sufficing' “[T]here is a very widespread and comfortable belief that we are all of us born writers. Not long...
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'He Seemed to Think Lucidity All-sufficing'

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“[T]here is a very widespread and comfortable belief that we are all of us born writers. Not long ago I heard that agile and mellifluous quodlibetarian, Dr. Joad, saying in answer to a questioner who wanted to write good letters, that anybody could write good letters: one had but...
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The American Scholar
“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American...
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“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Wuthering...
Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree. Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the...
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Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree.

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Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the hellscape of the Thirty Years’ War.  Apparently that was not grim enough for him so his new novel, The Director (2023), although there is some early hopeful Hollywood sunshine, is about...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things' Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between...
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'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things'

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Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between June 1580 and November 1581. He sought relief from the pain of kidney stones and visited numerous spas with mineral baths. As always, Montaigne is curious about everything – not just...
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The American Scholar
Dan Lynh Pham Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Dan Lynh Pham

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Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Something Which Longs to Be Filled' An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured...
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'Something Which Longs to Be Filled'

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An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured by Jean-Paul Sartre. The book is The Hole Book, written and illustrated by Peter Newell. A friend who collects vintage children’s books told me about it. The verse is serviceable...
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The Marginalian
Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow...
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Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness

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There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance — the accident, the wildfire, the random intracellular mutation — are these little acts...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named' It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all...
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'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named'

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It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all distinctions but absence. My brother (d. 2024) and Jane Greer, the North Dakota poet who died this week, would have had little in common in life. Ken had no use for poetry and he framed...
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The Marginalian
Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously,...
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Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time

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Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously, as a coping mechanism for the confusions and cataclysms of living. I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people...
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The American Scholar
The Linguistics of Brain Rot Adam Aleksic on how social media is transforming our words The post The Linguistics of Brain Rot...
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The Linguistics of Brain Rot

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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Actual and the Unexceptional' In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and...
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'The Actual and the Unexceptional'

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In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and critics the following question: “To what book published in the past ten years do you find yourself going back--or thinking back--most often?” I take the question personally because I turned...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What People Said and Did and Wore and Ate' Occasionally one encounters two writers, each unknown to the other, expressing sentiments similar...
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'What People Said and Did and Wore and Ate'

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Occasionally one encounters two writers, each unknown to the other, expressing sentiments similar but varied enough to define their differences. There’s no question of influence or plagiarism. The first is C.H. Sisson, the English poet/critic/translator, explaining his tastes in...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'She’s Gone, She Was Here and Then Gone' Mike Juster tells me Jane Greer – “North Dakota Jane” – a gifted poet with an ever-ready sense of...
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'She’s Gone, She Was Here and Then Gone'

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Mike Juster tells me Jane Greer – “North Dakota Jane” – a gifted poet with an ever-ready sense of humor, has died, age seventy-two. In her final Tweet, Jane wrote on July 3: “I’ve been in the hospital and am not sure when they’ll release me. I have diverticulitis and a perforated...
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The Marginalian
A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence “True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary...
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A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence

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“True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary Snyder reflected in his reckoning with the real work of life. “We need them.” We have always needed them because we need each other, because we have always been each other’s...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'That's How a Tale Should End' With an old friend I was reminiscing about the remarkably stupid things we did when young. Neither...
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'That's How a Tale Should End'

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With an old friend I was reminiscing about the remarkably stupid things we did when young. Neither of us had much money when we were students – this was in the early seventies – and we didn’t own cars. To travel any significant distance, we thought nothing of hitchhiking. I often...
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The American Scholar
No Time at All The post No Time at All appeared first on The American Scholar.
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No Time at All

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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Would Not Be Bored' “The very catalogue of the authors whom he knew is apt to repel modern readers. We forget that we...
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'He Would Not Be Bored'

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“The very catalogue of the authors whom he knew is apt to repel modern readers. We forget that we read countless ephemeral books, magazines, and newspapers, far less worth reading: stuff which bears the same relation to literature as chewing-gum does to food.”  And that was...
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The American Scholar
“Lament” by Thom Gunn Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Lament” by Thom Gunn appeared first on The American Scholar.
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“Lament” by Thom Gunn

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Lament” by Thom Gunn appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Beware Also of Tellers of Tall Tales' Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment...
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'Beware Also of Tellers of Tall Tales'

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Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment will likely follow. “Advice is offensive,” Dr. Johnson warns. Often it is motivated not by a wish to be helpful but simply by presumptuous egotism, a desire to impose one’s will....
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Record of Whatever Intrigues Him' I’ve always been a hoarder not of objects but words. I may be the least acquisitive person you’ll...
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'A Record of Whatever Intrigues Him'

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I’ve always been a hoarder not of objects but words. I may be the least acquisitive person you’ll ever meet outside of a monastery, but how I accumulate language. As a teenager I read that a fellow Ohioan, the poet Hart Crane, kept lists of words he liked for future use in poems....
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Offendings of the Millions' My youngest son this summer is working as an intern with a Houston law firm and one of the...
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'The Offendings of the Millions'

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My youngest son this summer is working as an intern with a Houston law firm and one of the partners loaned him a copy of The Regional Vocabulary of Texas (University of Texas Press, 1962) by E. Bagby Atwood, whose foreword begins:  “The present study deals with a vocabulary...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Some Temperamental Undercurrent' We squabble and seethe about it but our tastes in literature – and other realms, like food and...
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'Some Temperamental Undercurrent'

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We squabble and seethe about it but our tastes in literature – and other realms, like food and music -- ultimately remain mysterious. It has taken me a lifetime to accept this realization. You are not a cretin for enjoying the work of Norman Mailer or Toni Morrison, though I find...
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The American Scholar
Puzzled In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure The post Puzzled...
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Puzzled

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In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure The post Puzzled appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen...
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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

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Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing for...
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The Elysian
We need a fourth branch of government A discussion with Marjan Ehsassi, executive director of FIDE North America, about citizens'...
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We need a fourth branch of government

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A discussion with Marjan Ehsassi, executive director of FIDE North America, about citizens' assemblies and how they can be used in politics, business, and academia.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'In My Hands the Morning They Find Me' Who remembers the first book he ever “read”? Qualifying quotes because I don’t mean some wordless...
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'In My Hands the Morning They Find Me'

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Who remembers the first book he ever “read”? Qualifying quotes because I don’t mean some wordless board-book given to an infant by optimistic relatives. I mean the real thing, with decryptable signs on the page. I can’t remember this pivotal event, though it would change my life...
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The American Scholar
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature The post A Splendor Wild and Terrifying...
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A Splendor Wild and Terrifying

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Escaping Flatland
I went looking for friends, see what I found Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote...
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I went looking for friends, see what I found

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Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote a post about Ivan Illich that ended up, to my utter astonishment, to get read by almost a hundred people.
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