Peter Blair
@peterblair.bsky.social
Here because of addict behavior
Robert Alter 🤝 Henri de Lubac: footnotes that take up 2/3rds of the page
January 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Robert Alter 🤝 Henri de Lubac: footnotes that take up 2/3rds of the page
In 2026, we’re Genesis-maxxing
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
In 2026, we’re Genesis-maxxing
Cracking up (from Calvino’s “Cosmicomics”)
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Cracking up (from Calvino’s “Cosmicomics”)
Seems timely to reup this one peterblair.substack.com/p/moralism-r...
Moralism, Realism, Morality
How we understand ourselves, our nature, and our powers becomes a self-fulfilling picture of reality.
peterblair.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Seems timely to reup this one peterblair.substack.com/p/moralism-r...
Remains an elite soundtrack open.spotify.com/album/43MjCt...
Killers of the Flower Moon (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
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January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remains an elite soundtrack open.spotify.com/album/43MjCt...
Bringing back all of my favorite deceased writers about 20th/ early 21st century American politics for one last job: to write about the NY-12 Dem primary
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Bringing back all of my favorite deceased writers about 20th/ early 21st century American politics for one last job: to write about the NY-12 Dem primary
Good afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLh...
Masaru Imada trio - Green Caterpillar (1975)
YouTube video by JazzNote'89
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January 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Good afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLh...
"And since in all confidence you follow Christ, who today appeared in the world as a light shining in darkness, may God make you, too, a light for your brothers and sisters." (From the solemn blessing for the Epiphany)
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
"And since in all confidence you follow Christ, who today appeared in the world as a light shining in darkness, may God make you, too, a light for your brothers and sisters." (From the solemn blessing for the Epiphany)
La Chimera is an Epiphany movie
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
La Chimera is an Epiphany movie
A post in the commonplace book style about new year's resolutions to kick off 2026
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New Year's Resolutions
A Commonplace Post
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January 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
A post in the commonplace book style about new year's resolutions to kick off 2026
open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
This is what I read in 2025. Thoughts on some of these books here open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is what I read in 2025. Thoughts on some of these books here open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
Joan Didion, “Inside Baseball” (1988)
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Joan Didion, “Inside Baseball” (1988)
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Oh, good luck with your Fourierism
December 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oh, good luck with your Fourierism
“Love is sufficient in itself, gives pleasure through itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself…I love because I love, I love so that I may love” St Bernard quoted in DBH, Experience of God
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Love is sufficient in itself, gives pleasure through itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself…I love because I love, I love so that I may love” St Bernard quoted in DBH, Experience of God
"The Conqueror's victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending the mystery of new birth shone upon us" - Pope Leo I on the Incarnation
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"The Conqueror's victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. But through this wonderful blending the mystery of new birth shone upon us" - Pope Leo I on the Incarnation
Good afternoon open.spotify.com/track/4wOuyj...
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
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December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Good afternoon open.spotify.com/track/4wOuyj...
"Ayer also said that Wittgenstein often made friends not because of their intellectual gifts but because of their moral qualities" -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly Bottle
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Ayer also said that Wittgenstein often made friends not because of their intellectual gifts but because of their moral qualities" -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly Bottle
“Then [Murdoch] said that she had some things in common, as a moral philosopher, with Miss Anscombe and Mrs Foot..they were interested in ‘the reality that surrounds man—transcendent or whatever.’” -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly-Bottle
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Then [Murdoch] said that she had some things in common, as a moral philosopher, with Miss Anscombe and Mrs Foot..they were interested in ‘the reality that surrounds man—transcendent or whatever.’” -Ved Mehta, Fly and the Fly-Bottle