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How “Normal” Am I?

December 31, 2022

My youngest son came from Vegas over Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we stayed up till around midnight just talking about stuff. I mentioned that like

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December 2022 Reading

December 31, 2022

Jude The Obscure– Thomas Hardy (1896)  Jude the Obscure is a novel about a common man. The intro says it was the first novel with a lower-class lead

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Traditional Christmas Stuff

December 10, 2022

So there are some traditional Christmas things that I’ve never actually done.  1) Read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol  I’ve been on a reading binge for

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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.