I commend to you a process I stumbled into, for selecting websites. Maybe in doing so I’ll be stating the obvious, but maybe not. I found it to be a great boon to be able to enter my email address at various blog sites for my interests, in philosophy, politics, literature, and humor. At first I […]
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Submission
Review of Submission, by Michel Houellebecq The book is written from the first-person point of view of Francois. He is a scholar specializing in the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans. In many respects, he is Huysmans, except that Huysmans drifted into Catholicism; Francois into Islam. Like Huysmans, Francois is “the misanthropic aesthete and loner” who overcomes […]
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Happy Emancipation Day. I heard on the radio that this holiday is the reason the due date for your taxes is extended. I thought that was the most ironic thing I’d every heard, so I checked to be sure it’s real, and it is. April 16th is apparently the anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, […]
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