Happy Sad Lovely

Hamnet. Lots of ideas told in a happy, sad, and lovely story. Recommended for people who like that kind of thing (of which I’m one). 🍿

Tour Eiffel

Wonderful, from The Public Domain Review: Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902).

My associate and I enjoy these patio lights

Window Seat

In the coffee shop,
I saw a customer reading a big thick book,
It looked serious, printed on heavy paper, hardback with a jacket.

I tried to see the title, but he packed up
Before I got a look. Now I’ll never know.

A woman sat in the same seat after him.
She also brought a book. This one,
I could see the title.

Comfortable With Uncertainty.

Jonah Goldberg

Worth your time:

… I am a small-government, traditional conservative who thinks the Constitution is a deeply moral expression of liberalism.

And that’s why I like it.

Unlike the common good constitutionalists and postliberals and many of the nationalists, I think its liberalism is the most important thing about it. Postliberals like to argue that it is simply a morally neutral “procedural document.” Sure, it lays out some procedures. But it does so to codify some of the hardest-learned moral lessons in human history. A fair trial is procedural. Your right to one is a profound moral statement and commitment. Your right to worship, speak, move, and associate as you please may come from God, the author of our rights, but the commitment to recognize and protect those rights is not morally neutral at all. Just because people take these rights for granted doesn’t mean that they’re just the natural landscape. They are hard-won moral victories.

Pynchon: What should I know?

Starting with The Crying of Lot 49; any thoughts before I get very far into it?

November evening in a Welsh wood

Do you know?

Do you know Dust to Digital? Its Instagram feed of worldwide crowd-sourced musical performances is one of the few good reasons to use IG.

One Hundred Years Ago

Hot in 1925: “Moonlight Memories” and “Oriental” - from the Library of Congress’ National Jukebox

Past Lives

Watched: Past Lives 🍿 Very tender. Excellent acting. I’ll remember it.