A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Monday, October 07, 2024
Monday, November 21, 2022
Friday, July 15, 2022
Blake: From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
Expect poison from the standing water.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Scott D. Sampson, Dismiss dinosaurs as failures...and pave a path to a bleak future
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Natural Teleology
See also: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-there-was-cosmological-design-what.html
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Quoted in Science News, "There’s a long way to go in understanding the brain," 7/25/2017)
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Paul G. Falkowski in Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Friday, August 08, 2014
Science News, People Find Solitude Distressing