Sebald’s sentences
“Max” W.G. Sebald wrote some of the most mesmerising sui generis texts of 20th century literature. His Rings of Saturn is a collection of essays on silk, travel, depression, genocide…
Tag: quotes
A postscript on Utopia
Coincidentally – a word that tricks chance into being fate – I was reading this week Maria Popova’s account of Wisława Szymborska’s celebration of not knowing. Szymborska said, in her acceptance…
Reflections on 2017
The year is drawing to a close, and while it is yet weeks from New Year, the office christmas party season is in full swing, and my mind is turning…
Sebald’s sentences
I have spent the afternoon, as if in retreat from a world that does not welcome me, lying in bed and reading, much as I did as a teenage boy…
Quotes to write by 1.
From Niccolo Machiavelli’s letter to the magnificent Lorenzo de Medici in presenting his The Prince: Nor I hope will it be considered presumptuous for a man of low and humble…
