spring 2026

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I’ve been immersed in supporting the campaign of Xavier Becerra for Governor of California; working with lots of new project note; and sorry I’m not ready to put new discussion online. But soon!—by next Saturday, I expect. I’m working many hours per day to not have my update date be a disappointment, while keeping fidelity to what I want to do.

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a conceptual spirit constellating consilience

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preface to more-conceptual venturing:

• a conceptual spirit of telos
• for constellating interdomainal thought
• evincing telic consilience from appellant cohering

—not yet the interdomainal flourishing anticipated last week,
but I’m getting there, maybe later than sooner because my desire
to work more conceptually is presently more appealing.

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endearing fabulations

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Heightening a conception of “Literary” living seems at best these days to dissolve into prospecting comparative thought calling from appellant horizons.

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light houses

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“What, after all, is the function of great literature if not to enhance
the human endeavor and raise its potential beyond what is otherwise conceivable?  As Toni Morrison said in her acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, literary artists mine the resources of language
to produce ‘illuminations none of us has dreamed of’.”

from Literary Studies and Human Flourishing, “Introduction,” p. 1 

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