Teach me to care and not to care.
Camilla: When are we going to finally watch The Man Who Knew Too Much?
Gibbs: Soon. Maybe next week.
Camilla: Who is the man who knows too much?
Gibbs: Jimmy Stewart. There’s also a movie called The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Camilla: And who was that?
Gibbs: Bill Murray. If there was a movie called The Man Who Knew Exactly The Right Amount Given His Place In The World, who would play him?
Camilla: Fred Savage.
“Big book, big bore.”
-Callimachus
The latest episode of Proverbial is, I think, the best episode since “Marvin.”
“I have wrestled with great books, but the wrestling didn’t take place while I was reading. Wrestling with a text is rarely a discrete event, but an ambient one. We wrestle with a text during the year which transpires between a first and second read. Our very lives persuade us to view a book differently. We do not know we have been wrestling with a book until we return to it.”
-from What Does It Mean To Wrestle With A Text?, my latest for CiRCE
“Set a thief to catch a thief.”
-Callimachus
No. 1: “Prologue,” from Birth, by Alexandre Desplat
The latest episode of Proverbial, Losing Sleep, is on the subject of hate, which I seem to write and lecture about quite often.
After you listen to the episode, you might enjoy Hate Is Fashionable Once Again, a survey of contemporary conversations about hate.
No. 2: “House of Woodcock,” from Phantom Thread, by Jonny Greenwood.
No. 3: “Sebastian’s Theme,” from Brideshead Revisited, by Adrian Johnston.
“Parent: Are you ever tempted to let the self-care crowd into the school and then try to help them see things differently?
St. Benedict: We can do more good for the self-care crowd by sending them away.”
-from my latest for CiRCE
No. 4: “Love,” from Under The Skin, by Mica Levi.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.