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There is nothing quite like reading the short stories of Poe on a Sunday morning while waiting on a coffee at the local coffeeshop.
July 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles; and literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes.”
- Emerson

We are in the midst of a culture change; the old is passing away.
June 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
May I always be Becoming, and never settle. Being in the midst of perpetual Becoming: this is life and positive evolution.
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Is not prayer also a study of truth—a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

- Emerson
May 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“The true function of scholarship as of society is not to stake out claims on which others must not trespass, but to provide a community of knowledge in which others may share.”
- FO Matthiessen
May 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It's not that literature is dead. It's that, soon enough, literature won't exist. Nor will history, culture, or meaningful politics. Just a smooth surface of accessibility. And when that happens, it will be because of AI.

#booksky #literaturesky
A summer reading insert tucked into a special section of The Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer recommended made-up titles by real authors such as Isabel Allende and Delia Owens. The Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have apologized.
A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”
- Emerson, Circles
May 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Perfect spot for reading: University of Georgia’s North Campus.

Excuse me while I settle down to some Hawthorne short stories.
May 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Here is a statement of profound optimism:

“Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.”

- Emerson
May 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In the lead up to the American Civil War, slavery was known as “the National Crime” by abolitionist writers, such as John Greenleaf Whittier, among others.

And to that crime, and many other National Crimes, we’ve added “Funding Genocide.”

Will we ever live that down?
May 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Read in the light of post-structuralism, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter has got to be one of the most terrifying and before-it’s-time texts. It’s the first American novel to achieve the status of “High Art,” and it’s a feminist text to boot.
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM