Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

'Sea-shell and Leaf Alike'

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As the human world seems to grow more chaotic, as though entropy were finally triumphant, I look for evidence of pattern and design in natur...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

'Alive and Vivid'

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“I believe that it behooves the living, for our own sake, to keep the memory of the dead alive and vivid . . .”   That’s William Maxwell i...
Monday, June 15, 2026

'He Was Dull in a New Way'

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“A dull country magistrate gave Johnson a long tedious account of his exercising his criminal jurisdiction, the result of which was his havi...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

'The Document of Our Time'

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Among my teachers when I was young was a man I never met. In fact, he had died several years before I enrolled in his school. Oscar Williams...
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Saturday, June 13, 2026

'Green As an Arbour Grew Leafy June'

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I had seen the phrase before and guessed correctly at its meaning from context but still found the expression puzzling: “widow’s weeds.” It ...
Friday, June 12, 2026

'The Excitement of Entomological Exploration'

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A pivot or lasting change of focus occurred to me as a teenager. For years, since probably late toddlerhood, I had thought of myself as a bu...
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

'Keep Abreast of the Essentials First'

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In a letter to his friend the Rev. William Unwin, written in March 1784, nine months before Dr. Johnson’s death, William Cowper says he is “...
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