Eric Scheske

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Leisure, The Basis of Culture by John Pieper (1948). Choice quote: "[T]here can be unused space in the total world of work." Obsessed with efficiency? I am. At least I used to be. I'm a recovering efficiencoholic. It was bad, so bad that my time

Interesting

H.I.F. Ten books for fallen-away Catholics [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pursuedbytruth/2014/11/top-ten-books-for-fallen-away-catholics.html] . I was expecting Surprised by Truth and the like. Instead, I got Dostoyevsky and Graham Greene. I'm not sure I agree with the author's view that these books

Paul Johnson's Intellectuals: A Micro-Review

Paul Johnson's Intellectuals: A Micro-Review

If you're interested in biography, perversion, and modern ideas, I highly recommend Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. I read it on my honeymoon (heh, heh), so it's been awhile, but I remember greatly enjoying the min-bios on Rousseau, Shelley, and Sartre. I later read E. Michael

An Unusual History

I've been slowly making my way through Peter Marshall [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(author)]'s Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism . At the rate I'm going, and given the length of the book (841 pages), I figure I'll finish

Friday

Kingsley Amis: "Charles Jackson's marvellous and horrifying The Lost Weekend, still the best fictional account of alcoholism I have read." I'm going to have to get that book. First, it deals with booze. Second, it's endorsed by a man of literary quality

Tuesday

Nerd Toy I bought the new Kindle Paperwhite [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1] . It arrived last Thursday. I'm digging it. I bought a first generation iPod over three years ago and, other than the iPhone

More Lawrence

Last week, I featured D. H. Lawrence. I'm following up with this additional DHL that I published five years ago. I've been going back through, checking out these FtH pieces. I'm definitely going to have to consider bringing them back. D. H. Lawrence, Studies

Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm is one of those writers I'd like to read. Unfortunately, there are too many others I'd love to read, so even though I have a couple of Max books, they're largely untouched. Some day, though, some day. Always some day. Joseph Epstein

Monday

I have a few contemporary things to discuss, so today's Eudemon will revert to the traditional TDE style. * * * * * * * Received in the mail: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic by Fr. Robert Wild. I'm looking forward to reading it. From the back cover: Franz Kafka said

Friday

BYCU If you haven't spent a lot of time with Zmirak's Bad Catholic series, you're missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it's all there. I expect to draw a lot of BYCU material from Zmirak, including this nugget: