ArtieShaw

Have you ever wished that you were personal friends with a 16th century French petty nobleman and diplomat? His essays are more interesting and more accessible than that sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne

I trusted my drug dealer’s recommendation on that one and was not disappointed, so I’m passing it on.

Also, I will never not recommend Pliny the Younger’s account of his uncle’s death by volcanic eruption (Vesuvius) and his own story of surviving it. PDF versions are widely available.

Thanks for understanding. I think I was having a Norman Bates moment there: “we all go a little mad sometimes.”

Is it possible for everyone to stop saying this?

My apologies if you happen to be a SLAMS/BLASTS/BREAKS HIS SILENCE bot and are just following your programming. It’s just beyond tiresome because we know. We fucking know. It’s a lazy and hyperbolic headline filler. But now we have lazy headline writing followed up with a lazy comment pointing out that the former is lazy.

And it’s starting to break my mind in the same way “This” did on Reddit.

One more apology for me being bitchy tonight. It’s not so much this comment, but every single identical one that came before it.