Best of the reading year 2024
Letter No. 107: Includes two reading lists, 11 books, and wistful remembrance of an assignment that never happened. And repetition of the word “verve.”
The mystery in the beauty, the beauty in the mystery
Letter No. 106: Includes beach grass, Hebrew and ancient Greek, an unhelpful definition of fields, and vortex shedding.
Book report for November 2024
Letter No. 105: Includes literary prepping for Antarctica, essayism, and some very weird physics.
Can your AI chatbot flatter me as well as Perplexity?
Letter No. 104: Contains content generated by a codestack exhibiting fine taste in literature and some confusion as to who’s who.
It takes 100,000 years to produce so much beauty
Letter No. 103: Includes some faux Latin, references to German philosophy, and a plethora of inadequate adjectives.
Book report for October 2024
Letter No. 102: Murderous Vikings, the lowdown on notebooks, and stuffed parrots of disputed provenance.
Now what.
Letter No. 101: This should be fun.
My ears are ringing and let’s not even talk about my mind
Letter No. 100 (!): A rant from the brink of American political madness, or why can’t I find the mute button?
Book Report for September 2024
Letter No. 99: You may detect a self-conscious, apologetic tone.
More than meets the eye, more than meets the camera sensor
Letter No. 98: Includes a few hard-to-spell place names, Vikings, and quite a lot about house paint.
