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"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it, that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis

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17.9.25

Currently Reading: Fugue States

Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters The thing about close reading is that it's a skill you acquire for life. The other thing about close readi...

4.9.25

Currently reading, lol lmao edition

Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Svejk So far, it makes for quite the companion piece to The Radetzky March . The latter is elegant, hauntin...

28.8.25

Final thoughts on Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries, a year in the making

Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries 1. A friend advised me years ago not to read this book. We were discussing her undergraduate degree, which was i...

27.8.25

On Dirty Hands and thought experiments more generally

I will admit I have always found the central argument of Michael Walzer's "Political Action: On Dirty Hands" to be compelling....

25.8.25

Reading updates

I have completely turned over the books I've been reading. I suppose I will have more to say on Anniversaries , a book I spent over a ye...

18.8.25

Vegas

Because we have family there, I have ended up spending a lot of time over the last few years in Vegas. I don't gamble and have adopted t...

16.8.25

On Not Having Opinions

Changes in my political and aesthetic worldview were already underway, but the thing that ended up doing a lot of the work was something I a...

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