Hawthorne on real estate and thus American colonization:

"What we call real estate the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests... He lays his own dead corpse beneath the underpinning"

just finished and now burning with the zealotry of the new convert

bookhaven in Philly

words from the final volume of Proust (trans mayor, kilmartin, enright)

astounding, endlessly generative manifold map of Time (psychological, historical, social), journeyed by a fractal mechanism that constantly displaces the reader within the novel's pyschogeography at the level of the sentences, which strain, beautifully, toward a universal gestalt

storygraph is a totally infantilizing website that is now pivoting to AI...

"Flaws of characters a main focus?" good lord

wrote about my first trip to the symphony

daveposts.substack.com/p/my-first-t...

some recent photos

the news from last week is I watched (or rewatched) two of the best American films