Culture
On art, music, and beauty.
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Insufficiently Fractal: The world we have built for ourselves is too abstract
I’ve just come back from a week of backpacking in the Sierra Nevada. The first day we got altitude sickness, by the second day my…
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Why Do We Like Music? No explanation is fully satisfying
Why do we like the things we like? For some, such as food or sex, the answer is obvious. Without them, we wouldn’t survive or…
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All That Is Sacred: Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Richard Brautigan and Jimmy Buffett in 1970s Key West
We go through life with a diminishing portfolio of enthusiasms. F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote must’ve been popular in 1970s Key West. Thomas McGuane uses…
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Heroic Overeating: When you’re a kid, it’s an eating contest every day
When you are a kid, eating gets you respect. My siblings and I had a grandmotherly neighbor who took care of us when our parents…
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