Peter Blair

For some reason (I’m not sure why) the two I’ve read previously (Offshore and Gate or Angels) didn’t really click for me as a whole but very much enjoying this one so far

It’s short and great, your friends need to listen!

“The house agent was in no way legally bound to mention the poltergeist, though he perhaps alluded to it in the phrase /usual period atmosphere/” -Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Thank you! And will have to check out that Picard book

“It is that universal and primordial human experience of simple wonder at the being of things to which all true philosophy is ultimately answerable” -David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God

Considering the possibility of offering subscription based online courses independently in the near future. Would anyone be interested in this? And if so, what kind of course would you be interested in taking?

Chuckling again at the time DBH was like “I have an immensely grave thing to say tomorrow and I am preparing you in advance in the anxious hope you will be scandalized by it” and the thing was that he didn’t enjoy going to church very much

“Life is pain”

This ruled. Wodehouse meets Iannucci meets the Shirley Hazzard of “People in Glass Houses”

Further information here; He also had a room “filled with lutes and sheet music” www.instagram.com/reel/DPRb5EU...

Getting Killed

Wasn’t aware of the impeding release Geese’s “Getting Killed” when I made this list, but it’s really showing us something open.spotify.com/album/0eeXb2...

The past (of genre fiction similes) is a foreign country

“Captain Segura squeezed out a smile. It seemed to come from the wrong place like toothpaste when the tube splits.” -Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

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It looks like being handled by www.shopsbh.com and that they will sell some of the more expensive ones online and then do an in person sale for the rest. You better believe I signed up for their newsletter

Hahaha fair

In what way?

"One work he seemed particularly interested in was The Divine Comedy. I discovered dozens of copies of it throughout his home, including books that contained the complete version, books of the individual parts, and books about the book."

A Delancey Street townhouse filled with 100,000 books is a bibliophile’s dream — and an epic estate sale The amazing athenaeum of a modern-day Renaissance man who lived in Rittenhouse Square will be part of an upcoming estate sale from Sales by Helen.

A deceased Philly lawyer found to have owned ~100,000 books, including "The Quantum Theory of Fields, Manual of Vascular Plants, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, The Art of Dying Well, Ulysses, Why Bob Dylan Matters, & Leading a Human Life." share.inquirer.com/k0b8YG

Graham Greene channeling Wodehouse: “One can’t successfully follow St. Paul’s technique of being all things to all men without a change of suit” (From “Our Man in Havana”)

Yeah I was reading it on a trip this week and thinking how perfect it would be for that category

From her reflection on seasonal change in November and her beautiful tribute to a recently deceased pastor, respectively

I wish we had a million more of her short newspaper columns for The Concord Monitor collected in here

A Friday Florilegium “The purpose of human living is to live with each other, and if this involves living in friendship, so that the good life for human animals is one in which friendship is fostered and preserved, this i...

And then @peterblair.bsky.social on…the ends of life? peterblair.substack.com/p/a-friday-f...

Yes, you should, I would love to read it

Pawpaw picking and processing season

YMMV but she’s a lot of fun imo

Iris Murdoch’s “The Bell” was a preemptive brief against “The Benedict Option”

Primer Coat

Good morning open.spotify.com/track/0uUUca...

Guy Davenport and Evelyn Waugh: both Erle Stanley Gardner readers

Radio Lusaka, by Alick Nkhata 12 track album

more exquisite african country & western from mississippi records mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-...