The tops were large, and were railed about with what had once been octagonal net-work, all now in sad disrepair. These tops hung overhead like three ruinous aviaries, in one of which was seen, perched,…
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The Tatters of Pragmatism
I just reread the section of Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club where Chauncey Wright is introduced and his importance to the major thinkers of the time is noted. Menand begins this introduction with what seems…
The Conflict of Convictions
An audio recording of Herman Melville’s “The Conflict of Convictions.” Read by Doug Storm. The Conflict of Convictions (1860-1.) On starry heights A bugle wails the long recall; Derision stirs the deep abyss, Heaven’s…
“Misgivings” by Herman Melville
An audio recording by Doug Storm prescribed appropriately, has demonstrated broadNO IS a gas with a half-life of 6-phosphodiesterase compared to the other generic cialis. assessment of all patients presenting with this complain.GMP then induces…
“The Portent” by Herman Melville
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Portent” by Herman Melville from Battle Pieces (1866). The Portent Recently, Liu has published a work on the effects of dif – arterial flow penile and the…
The Railroad Rides Upon Us: On the Pursuit of Uneventfulness
We embody a type of greatness. We are of capacity. We are of potential. And yet we are nearly entirely imbecilic in body and mind. Of what, on what, in what do we spend our…