judgment

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• Mar 15 Expected an Author Blaise Pascal, Pensées (trans. W.F. Trotter) When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author,...
• Mar 11 The Abyss of Freedom Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (trans. Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl) I experience a sort of terror when, at the moment of setting to work and finding myself before the i...
• Feb 23 The Key at the Bottom David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste It is with good reason, says Sancho to the squire with the great nose, that I pretend to have a judg...
• Feb 8 The Thing Not Named Willa Cather, The Novel Démeublé Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, it seems to me, is creat...