Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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Parish or Perish
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (c. 1663)
I hope this finds you well.
That phrase struck me as funny this morning. It’s what we call a dead metaphor, in that the sensation it was once meant to evoke is now so tired that it no longer evokes...
The Loss of Magnificence
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics magnificence (megaloprepeia) is defined as a fitting and tasteful expenditure of large-scale wealth on a grand or noble public work.
Men standing outside the Sagrada de Familia in 1905, 23 years after brea...
It’s Not a Revival
Can you imagine?
If you were a journalist living in the 1960s, I could give you a great headline: The Countercultural Movement That Wasn’t.
You write: I know you see all the hippies on TV and in the movies, talking about the free love in...
What to do about IQ
American soldiers taking the Army Alpha Test. Source: US National Archives.
I was administered an IQ test when I was a kid. All I can remember is a nice lady in a green room who asked me how far I thought China was from here. I guessed fou...
Small Talk Is King
From the Library of Congress: Talking on porch of small store near Jeanerette, Louisiana, 1938
It was considered common knowledge that this particular lawyer was a mean lady.
I had gotten a job as a runner at her law firm due to what I t...
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Cajun Catholic. Southern. Studied philosophy, worked in Silicon Valley, now I'm back in Louisiana. Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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