Tag: Love
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Never love by halves
The late philosopher Gilbert Ryle was fond of Jane Austen, so fond that he once likened Austen’s style of characterization to the technique of wine tasting. There is a joke about him that I quite like. When he was asked whether whether he ever read any novels, he replied, “Yes indeed. Each year all 6.”…
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On love, death, and um’s
Imagine, if you will, a fully lived life. Having what you need and loving what you should. No more, no less, no other. * I read the last lines of George Whitman’s life and thus fell in love with a dead man. Whitman, 98, was a famous bookseller whose three floor shop was set down…
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Hustle hustle hustle (Part 3): Terre Haute is bust
Terre Haute is Bust (December 30, 2006) Relationships, like tires, wear down, little by little, before they wear out. (Oh, but how we tire of tires. They too get old.) For hundreds, no thousands of miles, no for months on end, there had been a whirring coming from somewhere around the left front wheel. That…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 