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June 2023 Reading

June 29, 2023

Each month this year I’m trying to read at least one political/historical work, and one novel in Italian. Unfortunately, the political works, I’m spending a

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Grateful

June 26, 2023

Our friends are leaving today. They arrived in the states back on June 6th, but didn’t start staying with us until June 14. They are

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Italian Consulate

June 15, 2023

Went to the Italian consulate in Los Angeles today with my son so he could get his passport. Security has gotten much stricter there and

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New Pic

June 12, 2023

I’m about 2.5 months in from having stopped the medicine. And I’m down to below 165 lbs. So this is the updated photo to document

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Marx and Abstraction

June 10, 2023

Marx makes a lot of how others ‘abstract’ concepts. This is something I’ve been struggling with in Marx, so I found this article, which does

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Isaiah 1

June 10, 2023

I started reading through Isaiah today. The first chapter starts with a condemnation of Israel’s rebellion. Israel had rebelled against the Lord, forsaken Him, turned

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.