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"A long meditation on the agonies of parenthood. Flashback to 15. Parents’ evening." — Jun 20, 2026 02:58PM
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"First essay in new formatting! "On Presumption", 7/10. I enjoy that the further he gets into this, the more he turns inward (fewer historical examples). This one is about judging yourself accurately. A neat little rhetorical flourish towards the end about how if you think you might be insane, you're clearly not insane. He thinks he has a poor memory and grasps things slowly, but he holds onto them once he does." — May 29, 2026 01:35PM
"First essay in new formatting! "On Presumption", 7/10. I enjoy that the further he gets into this, the more he turns inward (fewer historical examples). This one is about judging yourself accurately. A neat little rhetorical flourish towards the end about how if you think you might be insane, you're clearly not insane. He thinks he has a poor memory and grasps things slowly, but he holds onto them once he does." — May 29, 2026 01:35PM
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Interpreter of Maladies
― Interpreter of Maladies
“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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