Ideas
Philosophy and Ordinary Life
The actual world had asked something of him. But he lived in the true world and had failed to answer the call.
Camus on the Absurd
“Do you want the rest of the seal,” he asked? “Or can I finish it?”
On Sadness
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys.
The Kingdom of Insecurity
It was the morning of 6th July, 2012. I was hungover but happy. I had no smartphone in those days so, happily unaware of the tyranny of Google Maps, I strolled aimlessly along Parisian boulevards, going where whim and fancy took me. To my left, I saw a small street,