The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: russian

properly instructive (2)

22 December 2009, around 1.07.

How to behave in a library.

stulta navis

27 January 2015, around 5.21.

in which culture achieves its apotheosis and history is denied

Citation (53)

25 January 2016, around 15.43.

the ship of fools…

what counts

5 April 2017, around 18.44.

The walk to work takes an hour to cover approximately three miles. This is a bit slow, perhaps, but given the uncertain state of draw bridges, traffic signals, and my own ambling pace, it feels about right. It gives me plenty of time to think – about the day ahead, about anything at all. The […]

so to speak

12 August 2020, around 6.43.

A scene from Rousseau’s Confessions ((I see by this image that I meant to include Rousseau somehow. I’m not quite sure what I was thinking, but it probably wouldn’t have worked very well. I think I was intending to bring more Gogol into the matter, too, but that hasn’t happened either.)) We were walking away […]

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