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Finished writing: Paradise Lost: A Biography by Alan Jacobs. Joseph Addison said, “We have an actual interest in everything [Adam & Eve] do, and no less than our utmost happiness is concerned and lies at stake in all their behavior.” Virginia Woolf said, “Has any great poem ever let in so little light upon one’s own joys and sorrows?” Thus my book. 📚
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A wonderful explanation by David Bennett of the gloriously eccentric harmony of the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows.”
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NYT (gift link): “What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation? It looks like an additional monthly user.”
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Pet Sounds and a Last Word — for Brian.