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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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Marx – Capital Vol 1 Sec 4

July 12, 2024

Part 4: The Production of Relative Surplus Value  Chap 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value The portion of a worker’s workday that produces his subsistence has

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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.