Anna B
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Anna B
truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
It may well be the sentence that for diverse reasons—because thinking about Woolf, or sickness, or essays, because trying to emulate a certain rhythm in my own writing—I’ve copied out by hand more than any other.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
The dearth of optimistic visions of the future, at least in the United States, is central to the psychic atmosphere of this bleak era. Pessimism is everywhere: in opinion polls, in rising suicide rates and falling birthrates, and in the downwardly mobile trajectory of millennials.
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
On the one hand: “Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Four years after it first appeared, Woolf reprinted “On Being Ill”
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
“Anyone who tells you there are universal rules to how to add an apostrophe ending in S is either wrong or lying,” Jeffrey Barg, a grammar columnist, said. “You can’t be wrong as long as you’re consistent.”