The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: mystery

Mysteriosa Femina

1 December 2002, around 11.15.

In an abrupt change of pace, I set aside the works of Walter Burkert just as he was about to show once and for all how human behavior really works, and read a mystery novel until all hours of the night. I had given up on the entire ‘reading in bed’ thing—there never seemed to […]

the trial

9 March 2004, around 16.44.

K.

Adversaria (12)

31 March 2024, around 8.10.

‘Lack of clarity is selfish and confusing. The writer is wasting your time. Up with this you need not put’ —Deidre Nansen McCloskey (Economical Writing, p. 17) ‘No one is prepared to be Serious, especially about Art. I liked the way these critics wrote and fell under the rhetorical spell of their semi-colons, qualifications and […]

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