Archive - The Love Lectures

23. I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.

Herman Melville, Ch. 1 "Loomings" (1851)

Jun 30, 2023 •

A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks?

On Annie Dillard, Living like Weasels

Jan 20, 2023 •

Because this alone is what a man who came away naked could carry out with him

The 1542 Relaçion (Account) of Cabeza de Vaca

Jan 13, 2023 •

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1848)

Nov 25, 2023 •

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854)

Oct 27, 2023 •

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.

Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America"

Jan 27, 2023 •

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)

Jan 12, 2024 •

Winter afternoons with Emily Dickinson

Telling all the truth but telling it slant

Jan 6, 2023 •

While these internal revolutions were going on...

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Feb 3, 2023 •

Inform, protect, connect: facing the crisis in US higher education

My talk on Academic freedom at Leiden University last week

Apr 6 •

14:29

20. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"(1948)

Jun 2, 2023 •

"There was an uneasy cessation of all things..."

Edgar Allen Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"

Feb 10, 2023 •

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