Examples and heroes show us how to live. No matter how much higher above us they are, no matter how impractical, implausible, idealistic a world they show us, that world must always be the goal.
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A notebook of thoughts, reviews, quotations and musings. This is an attempt to find the knowledge, solace and beauty of truth and art while living in a usually hostile world.
dcornelius
... an often cynical but not yet pessimistic English graduate student and wannabe novelist interested in many things, both serious and silly. Religion, politics, literature, philosophy, movies, television and even games--I think about them all.
The Shoulders of Giants
"What can we do more than govern ourselves by the temporary lights lent us?" - Clarissa
"Now, don't you see, my son: Only this wall keeps you from Beatrice." - Purgatorio XXVIII.35-6.
"Now, don't you see, my son: Only this wall keeps you from Beatrice." - Purgatorio XXVIII.35-6.
Reading
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Archive
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- Catch-22 (excerpt)
- Satire III (excerpt)
- The Problem with the Problem of Censorship
- Cancellation of Jericho
- Review :: Fido
- Summer Session Begins
- The Paradox of a Freethinking Revolution
- TV Year in Review :: Serialized Dramas
- Aphorisms :: The Heroic
- Polemical and Irenical
- Review :: Hot Fuzz
- Democracy and the Binary Myth
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