tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7107027352750861950..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `It Provides Novelties in Old Age'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-75189885416035744562018-01-20T21:16:28.358-06:002018-01-20T21:16:28.358-06:00Dave Lull,
Thank you.
MikeDave Lull, <br />Thank you.<br />Mikemike zimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688913712302681707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-10914927385002777382018-01-14T09:05:29.213-06:002018-01-14T09:05:29.213-06:00From A Biography as Great as Its Subject.From <a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2015/09/12/a-biography-as-great-as-its-subject-james-boswells-life-of-johnson-joseph-epstein/" rel="nofollow">A Biography as Great as Its Subject</a>.Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-42848396876504861592018-01-11T14:13:28.273-06:002018-01-11T14:13:28.273-06:00Re: Maxwell’s preference for biography, memoir, di...Re: Maxwell’s preference for biography, memoir, diaries and correspondence when selecting books to review: “what people said and did and wore and ate and hoped for and were afraid of, and in detail after often unimaginable detail they refresh our idea of existence and hold oblivion at arm’s length.” Such books, he says possess the “breath of life.” <br /><br />Joseph Epstein (unknown source):<br />Early in his biography Boswell remarks “that minute particulars are frequently characteristick, and always amusing, when they relate to a distinguished man.” In the hands of an artful biographer, these minute particulars, like so many well-placed dots in a pointillist painting, conduce to provide a satisfyingly full picture. So it is with the “Life of Johnson.” Boswell shows us his subject’s gruff table manners, how he walked, his laugh (like that of a rhinoceros), his terror of death, his immense—one can only call it his Christian—generosity to the poor and those defeated by life.<br />mike zimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688913712302681707noreply@blogger.com