Keith Huddleston

Creating is better than consuming. Giving is better than selling.

Sunday, September 5, 2021

The End

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I like when a website officially ends, rather than just fading away and leaving any readers to wonder if new content will ever appear.   And...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Shakespeare's Reputation over time

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 Wow, Wikipedia for the win here, big time.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare:  Dryden's sentiments about...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Fake Lao Tzu Quotes

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 A website I am glad exists. https://www.taoistic.com/fake-laotzu-quotes/
Sunday, April 4, 2021

Did you know that Alexander Pope . . .

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope :   After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxfor...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Cura > curiosity

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 I am reading Philip Ball's book Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. It claims that curious comes from the Latin cu...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Onward Meta-rationality

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 I'm glad someone -- here Scott Alexander -- showed me the front door on Dave Chapman's project.  https://metarationality.com/introd...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Simple Benny Graham

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 More for my own bookmarking: http://www.ndir.com/SI/articles/MS1005.shtml Simple Benny Graham, for simple people. 
Friday, March 12, 2021

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_St_John,_1st_Viscount_Bolingbroke Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (/ˈsɪndʒɪn ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/; 16 Sep...

Hume summing up Charles II

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 . . .  and, really, the Stuarts as a whole.   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19216/19216-h/19216-h.htm :  The French greatness never, duri...

Gallica

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 So, I just found out the National Library of France is super psyched about the notion of sharing information with me, ie any random citizen...

Marin Mersenne

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 The book I read described him as a hub in the intellectual internet of his time.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Mersenne :  Marin Me...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Milton on his Italian visit

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From Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing. To the Parliament of England via  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44733/...
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