Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Monday, December 15, 2025

'Something to Be Found Out'

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If I had the right to design a friend, someone to possess all the qualities I most value in a companion, my first ingredient might be curios...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

'Put Yourself in Your Reader's Place'

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No need to dispense with writers rendered neutral by the passing of years. It happens naturally. Time discards what no longer seems interest...
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Saturday, December 13, 2025

'Yet Still He Fills Affection’s Eye'

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"So many have died before us, that our deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . . . after so many . . . funeral dirges he must ...
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Friday, December 12, 2025

'He Loved What He Was Doing'

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"Looking back as well as I can at my character during my school life, the only qualities which at this period promised well for the fut...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

'The Most Corrupt Writer Who Ever Lived'

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If I were to ask you to name a “corrupt” writer, who comes to mind first? Consider the adjective. From the Latin and French, the original fo...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

'The Only Information I am Seriously Interested In'

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I’ve met three or four people who might accurately be described, even by others, as extremely “well-informed.” Most were journalists, whose ...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

'Nor a Single Thing That Belongs to Us'

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“The atmosphere in Lwów , in November, December . . . A city that had lost its beauty, a city besieged by fear.”   The Polish poet Aleksan...
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