He sauntered up to me and casually and asked if he could read Moby Dick. “Why do you want to read Moby Dick?” “I don’t know. I just want to.” I knew he would say that, but I was stalling. I asked him to get his schedule for me while I sat pondering what on […]
I turn 40 today. I have prepared for this event over the last week by driving three thousand miles across the country and listening to Pride & Prejudice (alas, real psychological insights into human personhood were genuinely possible before the invention of psychoanalysis). Of all the noteworthy, insightful characters in the book which might capture
