Books I Read April 3rd, 2022

Selected Journalism, 1850-1870 by Charles Dickens – I have this rule about finishing books that I start. Mostly, I think this is a good rule, I often find that difficult books can get more enjoyable as you work through them and even in bad books there is usually some value in figuring out what's bad about them. Every so often it does end up becoming a miserable exercise in intellectual masochism.

The Crows of Deliverance by Nirmal Verma – A collection of ruminative shorts about melancholic exchange students and disobedient sons. I quite like Verma, these were very good.

The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg – Aphorisms from everyone's favorite Enlightenment German.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.