Saturday, May 16, 2026

spring 2026



Three months of links to recent literary discussions have been moved to my main project, all together in sequence under the title “Literature21.”

This week, I’ve finished a very difficult (often tedious) path of work
on conceptuality which I mentioned April 17 below. Now (by next Saturday?) I want to narratively path toward that highland by rendering senses of literary flourishing as comparative thinking.

What can I say? I love to write.


Friday, April 03, 2026

endearing fabulations



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


Sunday, March 29, 2026

light houses



“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