Currently reading: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. Another re-read. Very excited to return to this one. 📚
I want to move to the desert just to escape the leaf blowers.
Finished reading: Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up by Philip Pullman. A perfect little fable, ideal for children of all ages. 📚
Mary Harrington: “We need to re-imagine marriage as the enabling condition for radical solidarity between the sexes, and as the smallest possible unit of resistance to overwhelming economic, cultural, and political pressure to be lone atoms in a market. Households formed on this model can work together both economically and socially on the common business of living, whether that’s agricultural, artisanal, knowledge-based, or a mix of all these. This is an essential precondition for the sustainable survival of human societies. Our biggest obstacle is an obsolete mindset that deprecates all duties beyond personal fulfilment, and views intimate relationships in instrumental terms, as means for self-development or ego gratification, rather than enabling conditions for solidarity.”
I (a) announced that I was shutting down my Buy Me A Coffee page, (b) heard from some readers telling me not to do that, (c) announced that I won’t be shutting it down after all. A bit embarrassing … but it’s very kind of people to want to support me.
Klopp pulling a hammy while (a) celebrating the winning goal and (b) shouting at the fourth official is one of the great moments of this of any other Premier League season. ⚽️
Finished reading: Raymond Chandler: the Library of America Edition by Raymond Chandler. Most of these I hadn’t read in decades … I’m having a complicated response to them after all this time. I’ll write up my thoughts eventually. 📚
