Mark Storm

That’s my line…

“The inquiry into untimely questions is the search for a life that doesn’t need to be shielded from reflection, a life you live by understanding it.” — Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Want to Lead a More Meaningful Life? Exercise Your Personal Reflection Muscles

Want to Lead a More Meaningful Life? Exercise Your Personal Reflection Muscles, Emma Wilkins writes. John Templeton Foundation

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Can I be of any assistance?

Well, I could have, but so could you, no doubt (very sure of it).

Sure it wasn’t me who said this?

I meant Thursday morning, of course.

Tomorrow night, early Wednesday morning.

And to answer your other question: no idea what I am doing here…

With tomorrow’s elections, infrastructure is the least of my worries…

Crooked Cross, Sally Carson (Persephone Books, 2025) persephonebooks.co.uk/products/cro...

The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K. Set in a small village in the Bavarian Alps, Sally Carson’s “Crooked Cross” presents an eerily familiar portrait of the rise of fascism.

Crooked Cross — “Set in a small village in the Bavarian Alps, Sally Carson’s ‘Crooked Cross’ presents an eerily familiar portrait of the rise of fascism,” Rebecca Mead writes in The New Yorker. @newyorker.com

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We thought we were just joking / Trying dreams on for size / We never realized we’d be stuck with them for the rest of our lives

— Pulp, from Farmers Market (More)

Photograph: Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker. Credit: Tom Jackson

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‘Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,’ by Isabella Hammad (Fern Press, 2024) — “… a book that calls us to witness our place in history.” (Sally Rooney)

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Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom | Aeon Videos ‘I think that freedom everywhere, anywhere is love.’ Father Giles, a monk for 47 years, shares his radical view of freedom

Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom — “Silence is an enabling thing. It frees you for listening, for availability, for avoiding imposing yourself …” @aeon.co aeon.co/videos/throu...