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Jane Eyre Progress

August 5, 2024

I’m reading essentially 33 pages every day, enough to get me through in 12 days. This is relatively slow for me, but I’m taking the

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Helen Burns

August 3, 2024

In Chapter 6 of Jane Eyre, Jane has an exchange with Helen Burns. After seeing Helen cruelly chastised for minor issues, Jane speaks with her:  “You

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July 2024 Reading

July 30, 2024

Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and the rest of Marx’s Capital.  L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Continuing

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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.