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I wish I could be friends with this author

As this book progresses I’m annoyed by how lengthy the examples are which the author uses to make a point. I can see how this storytelling-style is effective in his classes. But, as a reader, it feels like he doesn’t have many original points to make, when after three pages of a play’s backstory he basically says, “See? That’s what I mean.”

“For mental and moral health we need both: that could be me speaking AND that is someone very different from me speaking.”

regarding classics:
“We catch our breath at the places where the breath was always caught.” -Tom Stoppard

Four is the least impactful of the essays so far, for me. But I will remember that. ^^^

Ch 3: NEGATIVE SELECTION is so observable in our lives, making sense of how we INFORMATIONALLY TRIAGE.

This chapter is full of parallels to Wendell Berry’s outlook!

“But surely to encounter texts from the past is a relatively nonthreatening, and yet potentially enormously rewarding, way to practice encountering difference.”