Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Speaking of decline

I am listening to Montaigne's Essays. I remember reading them in college as part of Columbia's core curriculum.

Alas, many decades later, I no longer find them charming and wise and gripping. He sounds to me like a pompous self-absorbed blowhard.

Surely the loss is mine.

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