Monday, August 26, 2024

On being 3

 At least a couple of times, I’ve wondered what this collection of notes is. If it must be labeled, I think it is a concatenation, rather than a blog. Whatever it is, it’s three years old today.

• Note: The truly curious might want to see “The trail of the mind,” July 28, 2023, and “Lytton Strachey's diction,” Feb. 16, 2023.
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