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  • On Purposive Reading

    Getting a foothold in the universe of blogging, I have discovered that the antithesis of “composing” one’s life, is probably the “composting” of meaning — which occurs through random accumulation, however initially purposive the intellectual pursuit.
    Several concrete examples winked at me as bell weathers of this concept. The first was Slate’s summary of news stories [...]

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