tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post8647671590952384137..comments2024-03-28T16:48:23.212-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `As If They Had All Known Each Other Well'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-78033220053611962692016-05-27T16:39:31.653-05:002016-05-27T16:39:31.653-05:00I discovered Gross's collection while I was in...I discovered Gross's collection while I was in college, and over the years it's proved to be one of my desert island books. It's very comforting, encountering an aphorist coming back from a place in life that I'm heading.The Sanity Inspectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-60853935635470421492015-05-16T00:18:30.734-05:002015-05-16T00:18:30.734-05:00David Myers pointed out that Peter De Vries wrote ...David Myers pointed out that Peter De Vries wrote a sort of aphorism that De Vries called "Pepigrams" as well:<br /><br />"De Vries developed a taste for verbal humor while working on a community newspaper in Chicago after leaving school. ‘The result,’ he told an interviewer: ‘I truly enjoy local, homespun philosophers. Right on top of that I actually did write Pepigrams [e.g., “To turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones — pick up your feet”], for use as wall mottoes and such. I got two bucks a Pepigram, and they got stuck in my blood.’"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/09/27/peter-de-vries/" rel="nofollow">https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/09/27/peter-de-vries/</a><br /><br />For a blog about aphorisms, see James Geary's:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jamesgeary.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jamesgeary.com/blog/</a>Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.com