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Stuff from the books & long-from articles I read.

The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing. Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation. I’ve been thinking

A new “Hello world!”

From The Journal 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau. Oct. 22 [1837] "What are you doing now?" he asked. "Do you keep a journal?" So I make my first entry to-day. I propose this become the standard first blog post instead of “Hello world!”

On going on

From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative (p. 10). I like these sentences. They are simple, and they seem so truth to me as I read them.

[Reading] Ribbonfarm

Writing on his blog Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao says, I was asked in a DM conversation whether I use AI for writing, and I said no, it would be like going for a walk in my car. This was a great opening sentence! It made me alight, and it said something

⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday when I send out an email about things that bring some surplus jouissance to my life. I hope that you will enjoy them as well. My kids have been on spring break this week. I've been spending lots of time with them and not

Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like: “Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it

Life on Mars & phones

From this week’s post on the blog Walk Notes: I’m not sure there’s a more melancholy tune in the world than Life On Mars played by a local band in a church hall while a tea urn boils in the background. This is one of those observations

Top of Mind | Derrida through Lacan-Miller

Hi there, I sent out the most recent edition of my email ◉ Newsletter today, and in that text, I wrote about how my sleeping routine has been thrown way off. I don’t want to make a huge deal about it because I am getting sleep. I’m functional but

Anne Carson on links & lapses

From Immaculate Imperfection Anne Carson’s Unruly Art of Renewal, which is a review of Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, Jennifer Krasinski quotes Carson as saying the following regarding links (i.e., associations). “The things you think of to link are not in your control,” Carson told the Paris

“researchy”

Writing at disquiet, Marc Weidenbaum says: Often my non-fiction reading is more piecemeal and “researchy” than straight-forward reading. Me too.