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Category: Reading

  • The Witch

    Toil and grow rich,What’s that but to lieWith a foul witchAnd after, drained dry,To be broughtTo the chamber whereLies one long soughtWith despair?William Butler Yeats:…

  • Ash Jogalekar’s 100 Desert Island Books

    This is a good list. Plenty of inspiration. I’ll have to make a list like this eventually. Stay tuned.

  • Revenge is Sour

    The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish daydream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which…

  • The Thing With Feathers

    “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all And…

  • The Maniac

    Biographies are a waste of time. There’s little to be gleaned from the lives of those we admire. The details of someone’s childhood or their…

  • The First Snowfall

    The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every…

  • Utopia for Realists

    The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been around for some time. It’s a bold idea that has the potential to fundamentally change…

  • Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve

    This is an unusual book. I’m not aware of any other attempt to analyze literature using big data and statistics. For example: Ernest Hemingway, together…

  • Three Nights Song

    He waits to happen with the clearreality of what he thinks about-to be a child who wakes beautifully,a man always in the state of wakingto…

  • Tree House

    A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A…

  • The Alphabet of American Animals

    The armadillo, the armadillo has armor above but not below The bear, the bear has a lot of hair everywhere The coyote, the coyote can…

  • Acquainted With the Night

    I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city…

  • Tribe

    When a society is under attack, what happens to its mental health? You may think that the associated stress will cause psychiatric disorders to increase,…

  • Improbable Destinies

    Is there such a thing as destiny? How resilient are outcomes to changed starting conditions? This was the question that Stephen Jay Gould asked in…

  • Jim Harrison

    I’ve been reading a lot of Jim Harrison lately. It’s an infatuation with his work that began a few years ago but has now reached…

  • Vernor Vinge Has Died

    This week, science fiction writer Vernor Vinge died. Rainbows End (2006) is one of the best science fiction novels of all time.

  • The Second Kind of Impossible

    Short version: Paul J. Steinhardt’s The Second Kind of Impossible is the best science book I’ve read in a long time. Long version: Crystals are…