Eric Scheske

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Le Rochefoucauld

A few months ago, I ordered a used copy of Le Rochefoucauld's [http://charon.sfsu.edu/maximfolder/RochefoucauldBio.html]Maxims. Only $6.00. Unfortunately, the book dealer didn't mention that it was in French. Besides obscene hand gestures, I doesn't know any French, so

Perplexed?

Around age 19, I caught a reading bug and started reading everything that could possibly help settle dozens (millions?) of both precise and vague questions that bothered me. A constant but undisciplined reading frenzy continued for about three years, then I ran across James Schall's Another Sort of

Conrad at NYT

An article about Joseph Conrad in the New York Times. That's good to see, even if the reasons aren't: > The Secret Agent,Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich -- in fact, a scheme

Hillbilly Thomist

I used to subscribe to Mars Hill Audio magazine. I always enjoyed it, but let my subscription lapse when my commute shrunk to four minutes (15 minutes by foot). I might have to order this, though: > In this MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation, Ken Myers talks with Susan Srigley about

The Bizarro Hagiographer

Books & Culture reviews James J. O'Donnell's new book, Augustine: A New Biography, and finds it wanting, to say the least. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/005/6.14.html]. Excerpts: > A reader of this book will be left wondering how Augustine could

Waugh Me

The American Conservative's forthcoming issue has an excellent piece about Evelyn Waugh (no link available). Written by R.J. Stove, the article is filled with samples of Waugh's ridiculously clever (albeit borderline cruel) literary criticism. It's also filled with great passages from Waugh'

Terrible Ted's New Book

We earlier (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2090/]) recommended Theodore Dalrymple's new book, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566636434/thedailyeudem-20], even though we hadn't read it yet. Well, our copy arrived last

Joseph (not Juan) Epstein

Mindlessly surfing while working off the effects of an evening at the drinking club, we ran across this nice overview of the work of our favorite essayist, Joseph Epstein. Link [http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/jepstein.html]. Excerpt: > "I have always thought," says Joseph Epstein, "that

Brews You Can Use II

Great passage from Steven Shapin's essay/review of Tom Standage's A History of the World in 6 Glasses in The New Yorker: > The taking of certain drinks could itself be society-making. The Greek symposium was, literally, a “drinkingtogether,” and the watered wine was both such

Another Way to Get Your Warhol Fifteen

> How much would you pay to be immortalized as a zombie in a Stephen King novel or a good guy in a John Grisham thriller? > King and Grisham are among 16 authors selling the right to have a character in a book named for the buyer to raise