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April 2023 Reading

May 2, 2023

The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins  (1868) One of the first ‘Detective’ novels. This one felt really familiar to me and about 100 pages into it, I realized

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Music I Love: 1988

April 30, 2023

Fast Car– Tracy Chapman Great song with wistful/hopeful lyrics.  Simply Irresistible– Robert Palmer Oops… I realized I had written in an earlier post that it was Addicted to

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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.