Monthly Archives: August, 2018

The Elephant in the Brain 2018-08-16
The Reivers 2018-08-14
Kudos 2018-08-06
Circe 2018-08-01

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The Rewrite
New beginningsThis week I’ve begun rewriting my manuscript. Although I’m six months into this novel, and wrote a zero draft in around 4…
It Rains on Our Love
This week I watched Bergman’s It Rains on Our Love (1946). It’s a twisting tale of a lowly, desperate pair who meet in a train station and…
Everything Static
If you’re reading this, you’re on my new blog. I’m now using GatsbyJS. It’s fast.The gistThe basic idea is that a bunch of complicated…
GatsbyJS
Today I thought I’d try to learn GatsbyJS and see if I could turn this blog into a static site.I got Gatsby working in Docker, then tried…
Interstice
Today I’m thinking about the need for novelty and the need for security, which seem in humans in constant tension. I saw a literary agent…
On Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is an admirable attempt to define the good life. It is empirical and insightful, and seeks to answer…
Keeping Everything Moving, Everything Static
As a brief update I’m back from the Balkans, where I saw unseasonably touristy Croatia, snowy Montenegro, and beautiful Bosnia and…
A Passing Feeling
Let this be a placeholder for future thoughts on the topic of events and their contents, their planning, execution, and aftermath.What I…
A thoughtless week
I failed either to edit or to write as much as I would have liked this week, though I watched several films, read Vikram Seth’s The Golden…
Arizona
I’m writing from a hotel in Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ. I flew here on Friday to surprise my parents; I’m flying back to London today. I have…

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