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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Two weeks of grandpa'ing (and another weighed down by the cough gifted to me by Olivia, via her nursery) and I am catching up with my reading as well as my writing, Matt. Apologies for taking so long to get to this, another thoughtful, generous and fascinating edition. Exciting to hear your plans for an additional Letter ... the writing tap is truly turned on. Brilliant. I particularly like the quote I took the liberty of sharing to Notes - "I hope she never once arrives at a certainty in her beliefs without first putting in the effort to understand". We should all be so cautious. Keep up the excellent work. B

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Mary-Colleen Jenkins's avatar

Another lovely read! So glad you'll keep this newsletter going, even with your work on the new one. I hope you'll give 'To the Lighthouse' a try someday. I think you'd appreciate Woolf's dreaminess in that one. xo

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Mark Diacono's avatar

The Kierkegaard and Valery quotes are SO spot on aren't they. And I couldn't agree more about Small Things Like These and Boards of Canada!

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Mark Diacono's avatar

The Kierkegaard and Valery quotes are SO spot on aren't they

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Beth Alexander's avatar

I often feel this way about flowers, hence why I either have festering vases of half fallen petals or dried bunches hung on each wall gathering dust and happiness!

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Matt Inwood's avatar

You can't better a dead tulip! I wish we held onto more of them for longer.

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George Appletree's avatar

That’s Heisenberg uncertainty principle!

“it is not possible to immerse oneself within life and understand it at the same time”

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Yes, I think you might be right! Physics and philosophy not so very different!

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George Appletree's avatar

Yeah, Kierkegaard was first, but at last it seems the same thing

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Andrew Eberlin's avatar

Another rewarding read Matt. Thank you.

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Matt Inwood's avatar

Thanks, Andrew. My first Albanian reader, I suspect! ;)

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