striker
10mo ago
At the risk of playing up to “touch grass” memes, I’m only ever truly relaxed when I get earthed. This can happen in several ways, but a few: disconnecting from tech, hiking/walking/wandering, cooking/eating/drinking beer outdoors, breathing fresh air, reading a paper book, digging a hole and planting a tree, trimming hedges, cutting grass, chopping/hauling/burning wood. Basically any day when my information diet is mostly non-human and mostly full of soil nutrients relaxes and invigorates me for all the necessary days of working with people.
striker
10mo ago
Just finished Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. Published 25 years ago, but plot – about a university professor who finds himself cancelled after using a word where the literal/dictionary meaning is perfectly correct but an alternative/colloquial meaning is disparaging/racist – feels totally current.
I am awestruck by Roth’s sentences. Almost every page has a great one. (If you enjoy technically brilliant long – sometimes page-long – sentences.)
There are some blind spots – a couple of characters’ stories just seem to stop without resolution – but overall a great read. Extremely perceptive, sort of culture wars years before the culture wars. I haven’t read much Roth. Will be checking out more.
Do all that the same day?
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