We Read To Find Ourselves, More Fully

How To Read "harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, Very Quickly, To Begin With, And Perhaps Also To Make An End. Why Read It? Presumably, If You Cannot Be Persuaded To Read Anything Better, Rowling Will Have To Do.

The Most Beautiful Prose Paragraph Yet Written By Any American.

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka Are Ironists In The Wake Of Jesus. All Western Irony Is A Repetition Of Jesus' Enigmas/riddles, In Amalgam With The Ironies Of Socrates.

The Idea Of Herman Melville In A Writing Class Is Always Distressing To Me.

The World Does Not Get To Be A Better Or A Worse Place; It Just Gets More Senescent.