Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading is.
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Read Viewed Consumed 2020-07
The books and films that I read and viewed during the month of July 2020, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Brief Encounter, and others.
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- 2020-08-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Hither hocus pocus?
On the phrase “hocus pocus,” from Marina Warner’s essay “Spellbound” on the book Drawing Down The Moon
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- 2020-07-19
- On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions
The Genius of Ozu’s “Good Morning” (1959)
Children in Good Morning protest social mores because they fail to appreciate the rules governing the relations of families and neighbors.
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- 2020-07-14
- Faves On Film, Movies, Cinema Viewing Journal
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-06
George Floyd was killed | among twenty snowy mountains | the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird | what I read was this
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- 2020-07-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
What is a flâneur?
An explanation of the cryptic subtitle of my site, namely, that I am an erstwhile flâneur.
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- 2020-06-28
- Faves On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions
Is Writing About Bad Movies a Waste?
In which I performatively answer the question with reference to an episode of The Mandalorian, whether one should write about bad movies/televisions shows.
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A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine
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- 2020-06-11
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-05
During the unhappy month of May 2020 I read and viewed perhaps less than I have for some time because I had no time …
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- 2020-06-06
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-04
ONE MAN testifies to his unquenchable virility by spending late hours in bed reading and watching movies.
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- 2020-05-09
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Notes on Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard”
Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a 19th-century Sicilian noble
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- 2020-04-23
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Consumption, March 2020
Amidst the struggles of the era of COVID, one man kept consuming films and books … valiantly.
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- 2020-04-08
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Joanna Hogg’s “Unrelated” (2007): The Desire to Belong
Reflections on an early film by the British film director Joanna Hogg, which I viewed in preparation for seeing The Souvenir (2019).
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- 2020-04-05
- On Film, Movies, Cinema Viewing Journal
COVID Information Compulsion
Early in the 2020 COVID pandemic, we “hunkered down” with our phones and devices, pathologically seeking information to momentarily pacify our data-addled souls.
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- 2020-03-22
- On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions
COVID Diary: Historical Ruptures
An elliptical reflection on the ruptures in time and history.
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- 2020-03-19
- On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions