Apr 27, 2024 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
On January 18, 1915, six months into the first world war, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, “The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” Dark, she seems to say,...
Apr 6, 2024 | Letters, Truth, Truth & Lies |
You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in comparison to those who have power?It’s easy. First, don’t let “those who have power” intimidate you....
Mar 23, 2024 | Essays, Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies |
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...
Mar 16, 2024 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do — not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad....
Sep 16, 2023 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Now that my daily duties involved a baby, I’d simply expanded my instrumental approach to accommodate the new reality: I wanted to know that I was doing whatever was required to obtain optimal future results in the domain of child-rearing as well. Except that...
Aug 12, 2023 | Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies |
You only ever get to feel certain about the future once it’s already turned into the past. Likewise, and despite everything I’ve been saying, nobody ever really gets four thousand weeks in which to live – not only because you might end up with fewer than that,...