Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

'This Interplay of Past and Present'

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Luigi Galvani (1737-98) was an Italian physician from the age of non-specialization, when a curious, enterprising man or woman could do basi...
Monday, March 09, 2026

'And All Are Lucky Just to Be Alive'

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The writer who has died since I launched Anecdotal Evidence, whose subsequent nonexistent work I’ve missed the most, is probably Tom Disch (...
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Sunday, March 08, 2026

'Release from the Relentless Consciousness of Self'

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Seamus Heaney somewhere said true poets always know the names of wildflowers. Certainly, he knew “Lupines,” and his poem  “A Herbal” is a ...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

'They Are Read When They're No Longer There'

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One of my annual jobs as a boy, self-assigned, was tending the portulaca that grew along both sides of the driveway -- hundreds of plants in...
Friday, March 06, 2026

'Like a Soaking Rain'

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In the epilogue to the third volume of The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-74), Shelby Foote describes the origins of Memorial Day and recounts...
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Thursday, March 05, 2026

'Farewell, Dear Friend!'

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“The whole insincere suggestion of most churchyards now is that life has been spent in a vale of tears: a long tribulation, merely a prepara...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

'He Loved What He Was Doing'

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In junior high school, in a closet-like room just off the cafeteria, was a bookstore displaying several dozen paperbacks arranged on wire ra...
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