Wednesday, June 19
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"It has always been one of my main endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire."
- C. S. Lewis
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
the hammock papers
". . . as I have said often enough, I write for myself in multiplicate,
a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the
horizon of shimmering deserts."
- Vladimir Nabokov
