@theodore_pJoined June 2025
Reads too closely, argues in margins, teaches eighteenth-century prose to people who would rather be elsewhere. Currently working through everything I pretended to have read in 2011.
Books whose form is the objection to their own content. Set in this order, they teach a term on their own.
“Begin here, because everything after is a footnote to it.”
on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Five books on the machinery of your own judgement, in the order I would set them.
“Start here. Read it slowly and argue with chapter four.”
on Thinking, Fast and Slow