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BOREDOM.
BOREDOM. We went to see an excellent performance of Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY last night at the Town Players of New Canaan. In the course of it I was struck that the characters spoke of being bored. Turgenev … Continue reading
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THE PLEASURES OF BOREDOM.
THE PLEASURES OF BOREDOM. I posted here about the value for a lawyer of having a capacity for boredom. In this article in the Wall Street Journal (December 29), Gautam Naik reported on a conference which was attended by some … Continue reading
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THE CAPACITY FOR BOREDOM.
THE CAPACITY FOR BOREDOM. There are a lot of jobs which have boring aspects, but are essential to a modern economy. Kids, you know that I often say that your mother would have made a better lawyer than I was … Continue reading
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FLAUBERT AND THE IMPERFECT TENSE.
FLAUBERT AND THE IMPERFECT TENSE. French and some related languages, like Latin and Italian, have a verb tense (the imperfect) which is used for an action in the past which was repeated or as this wikipedia article puts it, “an … Continue reading
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LEARNING HOW TO CHOOSE HOW AND WHAT YOU THINK.
LEARNING HOW TO CHOOSE HOW AND WHAT YOU THINK. After David Foster Wallace’s tragic suicide, the Wall Street Journal reprinted much of his commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005. One of the points that Wallace made was that: “[L]earning … Continue reading
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SAMUEL BECKETT ON MAN.
SAMUEL BECKETT ON MAN. Samuel Beckett’s plays dramatize the triviality of ordinary lives when compared with the enormities of time and space, the details of ordinary lives are trivial. This wikipedia article quotes James Knowlson who had interviewed Beckett: “Beckett … Continue reading
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NARROW SPECIALTIES.
NARROW SPECIALTIES. Druin Burch had a good review of BETTER, a book about surgery by Atul Gawande, in the Times Literary Supplement for October 5. Gawande points out the enormous difference that being 99% successful rather than 99.5% successful makes … Continue reading
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A SIXTH REASON DRAMAS STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK.
A SIXTH REASON DRAMAS STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK. This article by Campbell Robertson in the New York Times for February 25 says, “Each new Broadway season opens with a cherished ritual. The play is proclaimed dead, killed by — pick … Continue reading
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