I continue to joust with increasingly urgent deadlines, and for now I feel the need to spend such free time as I have (and there isn’t much of it) consuming art instead of writing about it. I will, however, pause to tell you about my recent reading and listening:
Archives for March 28, 2007
TT: Almanac
“Rather than reading a book in order to criticize it, I would rather criticize it because I have read it, thus paying attention to the subtle yet profound distinction Schopenhauer made between those who think in order to write and those who write because they have thought.”
Miguel de Unamuno, Ensayos (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)