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Literary man
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Musings of a man who reads books and likes to write.
- Author: djamescassidy
- Listed in: Writing Culture
- Tags: Culture books poetry literature reading
Recent Posts
The Road To Illiteracy
The road to illiteracy is paved with good intentions. As I approach the age of fifty, I am pleased to find patterns emerging from the fog of my experience. I think I can see where we think we are going, what we think is good, what we are doing to att...
Who Needs a Library?
Note: I wrote this sentence last, but see how far reading a few paragraphs of a Richard Dawkins book took me. That is the reading experience. A book is a flower that opens under your nose. Today, I was leafing through my copy of The Blind Watchmaker...
What It’s About
I have not written in a while, but this video speaks to me. This is what this blog is about. It is about books, and a certain way of thinking and living. It is also about feeling uncomfortable with the way we live. Watch this while you wait for me to...
Being Different
Everybody wants to be “different.” Few people want to be the same. Popular culture is a machine designed to create a universal sense of being different in all of us. Of course, we can’t all be different from each other. Let’s ...
Our Attitude To Books Has Changed, Hasn’t It?
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE I once left a box of books in the hallway of an apartment building I lived in. I placed a sign on it that said, “Help yourself.” I was moving, and these were books I no longer needed. In some cases, I had duplicate ...
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