new essay TRAPPED IN COSTCO

added NOWAKI; updated section on KUSAMAKURA following a re-read

The fart counter thing in Kusamakura also stood out to me when I read it. Soseki and detectives feels like something somebody could write a master's thesis about.

new essay: ENLIGHTENMENT

new essay: A NOVEL IS NOT A STORY, about the inadequacy of stories

new essay: I DON'T NEED TO TRAVEL, FOR THE WORLD IS MERELY MY IDEA

loved this 'When a man in Ancient Greece got on a boat and went to Asia Minor, he wouldn’t mentally place himself on a map, but instead just travelled through physical space, the same way that we might walk from room to room.' I have also been on that pirate-themed ship :))

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is BACK by popular demand

new essay: part three of the OF TWO WORLDS series, PHILOSOPHICAL HONESTY, in which i briefly sum up my adult life in order to explain why i feel the need to bother with such ideas