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
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
Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop”
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
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
Sexy Idea #1: Rousseau’s Noble Savage
Some ideas are “sexy,” ahem, because they baffle the imagination and excite the intellect (or vice versa). Rousseau’s noble savage is a case in point.
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- 2020-03-06
- Faves On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions
Consumption, February 2020
What I consumed during the month of February, in periodicals, novels, books, television shows, and films
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- 2020-03-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Krasnahorkai’s “The Last Wolf”
A reading journal entry on Lázló Krasnahorkai’s “book” The Last Wolf, which is really two small books.
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- 2020-02-26
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal