The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: planning

shnorhq

30 December 2009, around 7.06.

We’ve been waiting for the school to be remodeled for a long time. We were supposed, at first, to move in on the first of September 2008; this was quickly adjusted to 1 Sept. 2009. Knowledge day 1 came and went and the building was still not ready. The director clenched and fretted in her […]

Citation (50)

1 January 2014, around 14.58.

the dangers of athletics…

A Publisher Speaking

3 January 2014, around 5.20.

By Geoffrey Faber, Houghton Mifflin, 1935.

Adversaria (31)

31 October 2025, around 4.16.

‘Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation.’ —Federalist Papers (No. 58) ‘There are no straight lines, neither in things nor in language. Syntax is the set of necessary detours that are created in each case to reveal the life in things’ —Gilles Deleuze (Essays Critical and Clinical, […]

contrivances

7 January 2026, around 4.54.

‘St. John the Baptist (copy)’, by Hans Bildung, ca. 1511. Balancing the ledger of books for the year, looking ahead. Forecasting. Looking back, the past year was a busy one for reading, and I made some headway on some of my reading ‘projects’, although calling them that perhaps honors them with too much coherence – […]

m.f.c. fecit mm–MMXXVI · cc 2000–2026 M.F.C.

 ::