I confess it as a besetting infirmity of mine that I am too much of an Eudaemonist: I hanker too much after a state of happiness, both for myself and others.
– Thos. de Quincey,
Confessions of an
English Opium Eater
point of interest
This site takes its name from the above quotation; as it applies to myself, it as true as anything else. Regarding the indefinite article, allow me to assure you I did not give the perhaps unnecessary ‘n’ much thought. This is typical.
the guide
As it is difficult to find things without a map, I thought it would be helpful to point out where things are:
- As of this moment, I don’t do much here, but what there is, is kept in the archives: these are currently as comprehensive as they could possibly be, but are in a state of flux while I change permalinks and add tags and add what little niceties I can. Don’t worry about broken links, I am working on a complicated system of redirections which will take you almost exactly where you have no interest in going.
- Books interest me, so I keep track of what I read, and also I’ve put some otherwise unavailable texts online.
- Snapshots are to be found elsewhere. Sorry for the confusion.
colophon
This site was trussed together with much to-do using Notepad, a process involving much pounding of the table, much hopping up and down clasping the hand thus injured, as well as regular intervals of water and stale bread. Wordpress helps, too. Validity of form, though not of style, is hoped for. I have no great faith in web standards (which I refuse to comprehend), but there are days when I just don’t feel like doing the crossword puzzle, so I must occupy my too abundant time somehow.
Matthew Carter’s Georgia and Verdana (brought to you in part by the Microsoft corporation) are used throughout; Palatino Linotype is used for unicode Greek. If you do not have these things, well then perhaps that explains why this site looks a little silly to you. The pictures are from sources I decline to name.
I was going to write a Latin poem in the spirit of the Renaissance colophon, but I decided not to.
Also, I have cobbled this together from an older statement, so there is perhaps much that is no longer relevant, which is probably a shame.
the accessibility statement
Because it is unlikely that very many people will want to read these few pages, I see no reason to limit potential readers even further by making it (visually) difficult, if not impossible, to read what I have written. However, since I have uncovered no evidence that any accessibility driven ‘improvements’ I made were ever useful, I have removed them. Weep if you must, I shall not hear you.
My heartfelt apologies for any trouble this may cause; do not allow this to prevent you from writing to me with all relevant complaints, questions, comments, &c.