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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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Christmas Playlist

December 8, 2022

While I’m not the kind of person that LOVES Christmas music, I do love music in general and I like Christmas, and there is a

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Jude the Obscure

December 4, 2022

I’m reading Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure.  Jude reminds me of myself in some of the passages. He is a romantic with a relatively

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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.