Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Paul Graham also points to The Political Compass. My score is a little more leftish-libertarian than I would have thought. But it explains why, if the dynamics of the election were different, I would be voting for Ralph Nader. But sometimes the best is the enemy of the good, as Leta might say. posted: 8:23:18 PM |
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Paul Graham comes to a few surprising conclusions in his "The Age of the Essay:"
If all you want to do is figure things out, why do you need to write anything, though? Why not just sit and think? Well, there precisely is Montaigne's great discovery. Expressing ideas helps to form them. Indeed, helps is far too weak a word. Most of what ends up in my essays I only thought of when I sat down to write them. That's why I write them.
That's one of the reasons I keep a blog. I read a piece by Frank Rich a couple of years ago that made the same point: I write to find out what I think. Unfortunately, too often I find out that what I think isn't very perceptive or clearly stated. It can be just a meandering summary of plot points and shiny objects that have caught my attention. But I think I'll keep trying. (Thanks to kottke.org.) posted: 6:58:24 PM |
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