More specifically concerning: max beerbohm
21.vii.2022
21 July 2022, around 8.57.
‘Arthur Symons was talking of some foreign city, carrying in his waistcoat pocket, as it were, the genius loci, anon to be embalmed in Pateresque prose. I forget whether this time it was Rome or Seville or Moscow or what…’ —Max Beerbohm, ‘First Meetings with W.B. Yeats’
book-life
2 September 2025, around 4.43.
It is comforting to think that there can be a simple guide for how to read a book (i.e., the ‘X-ray method’). Obviously, the essay mentioned in the previous sentence is not about how to read all books, because one reads books for different purposes, but it is a fairly personable account of how to […]