Me and Ellen and a horse (July 20, 2007)

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

— John Stuart Mill (view other epigraphs)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 Elizabeth Costello and the White King

â€˜Answer me, Paul. Say something.â€™
It is like a sea beating against his skull. Indeed, for all he knows he could already be lost overboard, tugged to and fro by the currents of the deep. The slap of water that will in time strip his bones of the last sliver of flesh. Pearls of his eyes; coral of his bones.

Elizabeth Costello is my hero for the way she transforms Slow Man with her entrance. That is all I have to say about it right now because I just read that bit not two hours ago, still no idea quite where Coetzee is headed with this, but that chapter was an absolute masterpiece, a revelation. (Thanks Jorge for the recommendation -- it is a good first sentence.)

posted evening of Monday, July 16th, 2012
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➪	Alex Williams writes a piece for the NY Times' Fashion & Style section on the difficulties of making close friends when one is past one's college years: a piece which rings true for me, one which makes me think of some of the DFW stories I've been reading lately.
➪	â€Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.â€ Patriarch GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez is entering his autumn; Aaron Bady's tribute to the man and his work is well worth your while, not least for his speculation on a historical antecedent to JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa. (via zunguzungu)

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