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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges throu...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Friend, New List of Favorite Books

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Joseph Brodsky around 1970.  A new friend here in Panama, a cyclist, Yogi, and round-the-world-sailor named Roger, asked me for a list of bo...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

"Never Eat With Dirty Hands" Advice I Didn't Follow

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  In the 10th grade at Stoneham High School near Boston our biology teacher, Sonia Jones, told us "Never eat with dirty hands!" Sh...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

For the Sweep of History, Read New Books First

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Asked about the five books someone should read to get a broad view of the history of the world, the historian Walter Russell Mead said we sh...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Two Weeks of Fog Watch: There's No Boredom Like Army Boredom

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In the spring of 1977, my tank unit, 1st Battalion, 70th Armor, went to Grafenwohr, West Germany, for annual gunnery training.   Tens of tho...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Beauty and Deep Irony Unlocked by Hannah Arendt

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Irony can be lovely in literature. The current living master of irony in my reading is Kazuo Ishiguro especially in his book The Remains of ...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Buy or Rent? I Bought a Bike Right Next to the Panama Canal

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  My second day in Panama, I bought a Giant SCR 16-speed aluminum road bike.  I bought the bike for $500 at a used bike shop in a residentia...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

In Terror of Ducatis on Sestriere: My First Climb in the Italian Alps

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In 2000, I made the first several climbs up to the Sestriere ski resort .  It was a beautiful September day as I toiled the seven-mile clim...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

How to Tell If You're a Left Anti-Semite: A Checklist by Ben Wittes of Lawfare

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The last few weeks have been rough. Your Jewish friends have been extra needy. It’s not enough that you support their right to own land and ...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Hannah Arendt Center Summer Social: Preview of Fall Conference on Friendship and Politics

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This week I went to the Summer Social at the Hannah Arendt Center on the campus of Bard College .  The campus is set in rolling wooded hill...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Cold War Manchester Tour from Ian Sanders, Host of the Cold War Conversations History Podcast

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  Ian Sanders, host and creator of the  Cold War Conversations History Podcast pointing out Manchester World War II history. An alarm to get...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Meeting High School Classmates at a Paris Gallery Opening: Paul Campbell is a Featured Artist

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On Tuesday I arrived in Paris and wrote on Facebook that I had an empty row to myself on the flight over.  One of the commenters was Susan C...
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