Notes

A collection of short, interconnected notes, inspried by Dave’s Virtual Box of Cards.

Curated overview

My “notes on” are generally not reviews or summaries, but rather scattered thoughts and impressions.

Books

• Notes on Elif Batuman's The Possessed
• Notes on Dickens' Hard Times
• Notes on Carl Collodi's Pinocchio
• Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost and various secondary literature

Film and TV

• Notes on Pasolini's The Return
• Notes on Nolan's The Odyssey

Philosophy

• Notes on Cassirer's The Question of Rousseau
• Notes on Charles Taylor's The Malaise of Modernity, 1991 CBC Massey Lectures
• Notes on Jon Stewart's article, The Architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

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Recently added

• Simpson's Puritanism in Old and New England (2026-09-20)
• Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2026-09-18)
• Hegel's Idealism by Robert Pippin (2026-09-13)
• Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative by Jean-Luc Nancy (2026-09-13)
• Hegel (2026-09-13)
• Ernst Cassirer's The Question of Rousseau, 1932 (2026-09-07)
• Charles Taylor's The Malaise of Modernity, 1991 (2026-09-06)
• Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow (2026-09-05)
• Homer's Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Verity, Wilson, and Green, by Richard Whitaker (2026-09-05)
• Tragedy (2026-09-05)
• Uberto Pasolini's The Return (2026-09-05)
• Homer's Odyssey (2026-09-05)
• Dickens' Hard Times (2026-09-03)
• Notes on The Architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, by Jon Stewart (2026-08-23)
• Notes on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026-08-01)
• Film and TV (2026-08-01)
• Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (2026-07-18)
• Pizza Sauce (2026-06-07)
• AI coding agents (2026-06-06)
• Notes on Professor Strier's Paradise Lost lecture (2026-06-01)