taste

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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,...
• 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...
• Jan 24 What the Bees Know Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 'Of the Education of Children' (trans. John Florio) Even as bees pillage here and there from flowers, but afterward make honey, which is all theirs; it ...
• Jan 22 What Isn't There Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 Thirty spokes unite in one hub;