“But we all know that if we listened to philosophers everything would be contested, and we would never get anywhere.”
—Umberto Eco, “The Power of Falsehood,” from On Literature
October 28, 2006
Life
October 28, 2006
Can Proust Change My Life?
Anything can change your life, if you’re willing to let it change. Does Proust make the process easier?
“But an advantage of more prolonged encounters with Proust or Homer is that worlds that had seemed threateningly alien reveal themselves to be essentially much like our own, expanding the range of places in which we feel at [...]
October 28, 2006
Le Guin at the Seattle Public Library
Ursula K. Le Guin gave a short and potent speech about the power of language to shape thought and the suspicion governments naturally have of writers at the Washington State Book Awards last week. Her whole speech is available here, although reading it isn’t as compelling as seeing her.
It would be easy to think that [...]
