“Of all the books I have delivered to the presses, none, I think, is as personal as the straggling collection mustered for this hodgepodge, precisely because it abounds in reflections and interpolations. Few things have happened to me, and I have read a great many. Or rather, few things have happened to me more worth remembering than Schopenhauer’s thought or the music of England’s words.
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.”
- Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers Epilogue
The point of this page, and really of the whole site, is to serve as a repository of information to be referenced by my future self. Someone reading this site will see in it either a fascinating collection of thoughts, or the ramblings of someone who’s kinda lost it. I guess it’s mostly for me though!
what I’m currently reading
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- The Paris Review 250
- Jacky Zhao’s digital garden. I don’t even have words for it. Just go look at it!
what other people tell me I should read
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
- How to be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke (Le Petit 3)
- If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
- Chasing Beauty - Natalie Dykstra
interesting links
https://gwern.net/ one of the big inspirations for the concept of what I’m doing here. I love the idea of accumulating a body of knowledge over many years.