Archive - some possibly useful bits & pieces

Ontological wonder-sickness

'the never-resting clock of metaphysics'

Jun 29 •

February 2025

the beauty of green plants

and other things of this kind

Feb 15 •

“pleasure in revenge is always proof of a weak and narrow mind” (Juvenal Satire 13)

Feb 1 •

December 2024

‘Life … is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills’ (Virginia Woolf)

Dec 7, 2024 •

September 2024

failures of communication 8 (out of order)

salary, theory, identity

Sep 22, 2024

July 2024

failures of communication 10

Ned Block’s “Chinese Nation”

Jul 23, 2024 •

March 2024

Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvania Trilogy

Mar 17, 2024 •

February 2024

Naturalism, materialism, Platonism, atheism, and the enemies of Harvard

‘a pin-point orifice that emits his cooling spray outward over the universe’

Feb 25, 2024 •

"New occasions teach new duties"

“the Past’s blood-rusted key”

Feb 11, 2024 •

December 2023

Or Checking In: A Key To Everything

Dec 27, 2023 •

failures of communication 9

“That sand-heap of a term—consciousness” (James Ward, 1902)

Dec 24, 2023 •

November 2023

An Account of Four Seconds of Thought (1994)

including a small, silent, pointlike explosion

Nov 20, 2023 •

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