Mar 19, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
And now you could read... Homesick for Another World Mockingbird The Heart Goes Last Homesick for Another World Homegoing Breakfast of...
Feb 19, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
2.4 The ventilation system. This deserves a book all of its own. It was cavernous and booming. The air-handling unit was housed in the basement with me — a series of grey boxes joined to one another like parts of a mechanical elephant, a sheet-metal supply-duct...
Feb 12, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Putting it...
Feb 5, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
That is what no man (except those who are not really alive—in other words, wise men) can endure. Spitefulness is the only possible ostentation. People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. What do you expect? The idea that comes most naturally to man,...
Jan 29, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Underneath his apparent clumsiness, Sachs had a remarkable understanding of women. Not just of Fanny, but of nearly all the women he met, and again and again I was surprised by how naturally they were drawn to him. Growing up with three sisters might have had...
Jan 8, 2022 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
5.1 On the Company. No: on companies; on companies and crowds; whatever. In the fifties and sixties, people like me started conducting studies of corporations, presenting their findings back to the academy, for consecration as pure, unconditional knowledge. But,...