Tag: philosophy
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On Music
A letter on moral psychology and a fractured identity. S.R., I have bored you, I’m sure, with the seemingly endless, tedious, trivial repetition, or have bothered you with the slow, inept movement of my hands, as if I were first learning to use them, and my complaints, of pain, at little progress over great swaths…
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On Poetry and Philosophy
A letter on meaning and methodology. S.R., Forgive me if I’ve told you this story before. I recall, once, sitting in on a philosophy lecture while in college — something on Plato, I can’t recall what— and that a particular professor was also in attendance, of whom I was quite fond, and himself a friend of the…
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On Boardwalks
S.R., I’ve mentioned before, I believe, the unfortunate circumstances which led me to spend the summers of my college years working in a sleepy coastal town far away in a foreign land.
