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Calvert readjusted his will so that Wordsworth would get £900 on the event of his death. Calvert serves as the patron saint of a rare sort of social type: the person who can see a gift in others, push that person toward their vocation, and provide practical assistance to make it happen.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Gilbert Keith Chesterton—that Catholic equivalent of Hotei, the “laughing Buddha”—who, though neither a great poet nor a great theologian, had the sort of bewitched imagination from which great poetry and theology can be made. He shone as an essayist and fantast, and of all his many essays the most profound and provoking was “On Nonsense,” the
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Mark Miranda
@notmarkmiranda
“Gertrude moved her large face close to mine. ‘You know, Hemingway, you’re someone I created, a macho character who roams the earth looking for adventure. The truth is, under pressure you have proved to be quite yellow, which is really an embarrassment to me.’
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
I got the essay book “The Crack Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald this week, but didn’t realize until yesterday that there are only 8 essays and it’s 75% logs that were too weird or random to make it into his published work.
Inspired by how Festing Jones organized Samuel Butler’s notebook, he did the same thing by organizing how own fragments under alphabe
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@willgottsegen
Is it nonsense or brilliance? Wrote Virginia Woolf in the margin of her own manuscript.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
“Flagler’s is not only an excessive modesty but a personality so elusive as to be unseizable. . . . He has no intimates.”
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
