I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things. It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence. This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it. That people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.
— Taylor Swift
Never be ashamed of trying, effortlessness is a myth.
20 March 2025
he really dislikes the great man theory of history, but more than that, he dislikes Napoleon.
11Like a river of steel it flowed, grey and ghostlike
01 July 2024
An account of the WW1 German Army marching through Brussels by Richard Harding Davis.
2614 March 2024
celebrate by declining all meetings
42F. Scott Fitzgerald about the first world war
27 November 2023
from Tender is the Night
5518 August 2023
A review of the Richard Rhodes book
6910 August 2023
Partly a book review, partly a rant
7231 January 2020
Hardcore History, Kobe Bryant and new adventures.
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