Category Archives: Opinion

We As Humans

Those of you who have actually made your way through the 3 volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical whatever-you-call-it, “My Struggle” (same title as Hitler’s book) that have been translated into English thus far (there are six total volumes I … Continue reading

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13 Ways of Looking at a Weekend Alone in the House

1. In a stack of papers, each more incoherent than the last, one seems to shine out, as though lit from within by the divine glow of its interesting ideas and correct grammar. It is difficult to not write “thank … Continue reading

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History

I’m learning about Chaucer, for no real reason. I’ve never read Chaucer. In high school it was sort of like you somehow ended up either reading Canterbury Tales or the Decameron, and I read the Decameron. But I love medieval … Continue reading

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