Nova Petrópolis Someone has objected to my description of Bertrand Russell as “light reading.” I stand by the characterization. As an example of something which is not light reading, I offer Montaigne. He runs through an entire plot in one sentence: enough for five New York Post articles. In one sentence! No filler whatsoever. This was when […]
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Not Light Reading.
15-Sep-11Another Essayist.
16-Aug-11Reading Brian Jay Stanley I feel I hear a kindred voice – particularly kindred to my writing in the Staten Island book. Sounds like he knows some Latin, or at the very least reads Burton and Montaigne and Irving and Browne. Stanley’s cast of mind sounds a bit more modern to me, a shade more […]
Plutarch on Writing, History, and Virtue.
11-Nov-11http://cyberblogue.com/imap-365-migration-export-outlook-ios-doesnt-show-subfolder-folder-structure/ Reading a fair amount of Plutarch recently, the lives of Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, and Marcellus. What a superb man. Below is very nearly a summa of the highest, deeds-oriented (as opposed to eloquence-oriented) Classicism. You can hear how much he shaped the writerly outlook on Montaigne fifteen centuries later – what a thought, that […]