Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Friday, May 01, 2026

'Those Little Cracklings of Mirth and Folly'

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Who is being described and who is doing the describing: “His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on ligh...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

'Then ’twas the Roman, Now ’tis I'

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“Contempt for the past is an inbuilt feature of modernity, its preoccupation with change and the future, its determination to be new and dif...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

'You Delude Yourself'

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A reader has sent me yet another lengthy screed about the State of the World and it leaves me as ignorant as I was before reading most of it...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

'A Snapshot Rather Than a Film'

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Theodore Dalrymple sees more in the novels of Agatha Christie than I ever could. Of course, I have not read even a sentence of Christie’s pr...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

'Of the Mind As Well As the Heart'

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“[T]he main furnishings of the cottage were Oakeshott’s books. He had disposed of most of those he considered merely informative and retaine...
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

'Living in a Ghost Story'

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As usual when I visit Kaboom Books I leave with a stack of books I have already read. I’m a reader, not a collector. To find by serendipity ...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

'You Not There'

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Must condolences, words of consolation, be as sweet and gentle as words of endearment? Do people want to be assured that the pain of grief a...
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