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The Disquiet begins.
Essays for when thought itself feels like a moral risk.
First: “The Plight of the Anchoress” — on the scholar’s impulse to retreat, and the danger of mistaking confinement for devotion.
Essays for when thought itself feels like a moral risk.
First: “The Plight of the Anchoress” — on the scholar’s impulse to retreat, and the danger of mistaking confinement for devotion.
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Disquiet begins.
Essays for when thought itself feels like a moral risk.
First: “The Plight of the Anchoress” — on the scholar’s impulse to retreat, and the danger of mistaking confinement for devotion.
Essays for when thought itself feels like a moral risk.
First: “The Plight of the Anchoress” — on the scholar’s impulse to retreat, and the danger of mistaking confinement for devotion.
Academic devotion is such a strange ruin:
build a tower, climb it, realise it’s a cell.
The Plight of the Anchoress — now live.
build a tower, climb it, realise it’s a cell.
The Plight of the Anchoress — now live.
The Plight of the Anchoress
On the academic impulse to retreat, and the moral danger of mistaking confinement for devotion.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Academic devotion is such a strange ruin:
build a tower, climb it, realise it’s a cell.
The Plight of the Anchoress — now live.
build a tower, climb it, realise it’s a cell.
The Plight of the Anchoress — now live.