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I've even considered printing off essays from the internet I find insightful. I want to reread them, read them in bed, preserve them for the future. Archive.org
by everdrive 4mo ago
I've even considered printing off essays from the internet I find insightful. I want to reread them, read them in bed, preserve them for the future. Archive.org does exist, but everything on the internet seems to be ephemeral.
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- eudamoniac 4mo agoAfter I started reading essays printed in books, like Emerson's, I realized there is no blogger alive that is worth reading anymore. Something to consider.
- everdrive 4mo agoWhat essays can you recommend?
- eudamoniac 4mo agoEmerson, Samuel Johnson, Wallace, Orwell, Hume, Kant, Foucault, Evola, most philosophers you've heard of
- dhosek 4mo agoIt’s not merely that—I’ve found that reading a book on a technical topic is a faster route to understanding than trying to learn it from random webpages spewed forth by the google.
- voidhorse 4mo agoAmen. I never understood how such an avid blog reading community existed when, compared to published essays, the vast bulk of it is drivel. I guess I simply hadn't realized that many people out there may have never read a formal or published essay. What a shame.
- eudamoniac 4mo agoFor the same reason that an avid young adult fiction community exists made of mostly old adults, I suppose.