TOO MANY DETAILS, NOT ENOUGH STORY
Facing yet again a long silence from one blog post to the next, I stumbled on this passage from Amit Chaudhuri’s first novel A Strange and Sublime Address.
Read moreMISSING THE STORY FOR THE DETAILS
Amit Chaudhuri:
… why did these houses seem to suggest that an infinitely interesting story might be woven around them?
LIVE AND LET LIVE
William James:
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
ON STUDYING KANT
Claire Messud:
A good friend of mine, a philosopher and a Kant scholar, has devoted the past twenty years to interpreting passages of Kant’s Critique of Judgment.
CHANCE MEETINGS AND THE FORMING OF AN IDENTITY
Mark Twain celebrated his seventieth birthday at a fairly elaborate party, organized by the editor of Harper’s Weekly.
Read moreTHE MORE REFINED THE ERROR, THE MORE OBSCURED THE TRUTH
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing:
I do not know whether it be a duty to sacrifice happiness and life to truth.