Everyone Loves Larry

Chaucer’s past participles

July 1, 2021

So I am running across this construction in verbs while reading the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. It is to start certain verb forms with a

Dual Natures and the Release of Curiosity

June 30, 2021

Reading through volume 39 of the Harvard Series- Famous Prefaces, I’m in Victor Hugo’s preface to Cromwell, where he defines the Romanticist movement. He starts

Similitude in Dissimilitude

June 29, 2021

William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, writes “a principle which must be well known to those who have made any of the Arts

One Sees Only What One Knows

June 28, 2021

I saw this quote in one of the pieces I’m reading: One sees only what one knows. Just ruminating on that a bit, and considering

Samuel Johnson on his Dictionary

June 25, 2021

In the book of prefaces I’m reading right now, this one by Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his dictionary, made me think of my

People and Books… or Books and People…or How People are Like Books….

June 25, 2021

On my drives to and from work, I listen to podcasts. Most of the time, I try to use the time to expand my knowledge

Update on White History, and Are People Stupid?

June 24, 2021

I have been listening to a bunch of round table discussions, with panelists on both sides, about Critical Race Theory, because I want to hear

White History

June 22, 2021

So I found out about this woman on twitter. I think twitter is generally dangerous as a platform specifically because it only supports ‘bites’ of

Complexity and Psych Outs

June 21, 2021

I was listening to some more of the Darkhorse podcast discussion between brothers Bret and Eric Weinstein, about Fundamental Truth, and How to Think About

Intuition

June 18, 2021

So I was listening to a podcast, Fundamental Truth and How to Think About It. It was a discussion between brothers Eric and Bret Weinstein.

“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.

EVERYONE LOVES LARRY

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