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  As I was finishing with the last of Walter Benjamin’s 1933 writings (the last was “Experience and Poverty”, which is about, among other th...

I have undertaken A Song of Ice and Fire  (now that I'm driving most nights I couldn't come up with any more excuses why not to star...

  A pre-lunch snack (or perhaps it's elevensies), I have started in on Rage , which I am not sure I have ever read after first reading T...

Just in the midst of a rare sneeze-fest (8 or so in the last 90 seconds)… Enjoying some sunshine in the backyard. Alongside an a...

This morning I learned that we lost a great literary and philosophical mind with the passing of Umberto Eco at 84.  I have long been a f...

In The Chronicles of Amber , characters eat, drink, sleep, and sex more narratively thank is typical in other epic fantasies I know (perhap...

I love cucumber sandwiches . Saturday I picked up a few weird little cukes (one was called 'lemon' - I don't recall the name o...

The last 45 minutes has been personally significant. I came home from work (which evidently is a bastion of out-of-the-loop-ed-ness and ...

everyday life, indeed...

Because i think this idea is so ingenious i'm totally stealing it from Russell... Russell, thank you for your borrowed idea. If you wa...