Indeed, through internet sites like Project Gutenberg I can read now some of the greatest works that humans have ever created! It is of course, ultimately up to us what we are to do with all of it - even if the decision is to have a machine “decide” for us.

I state all of this in this post only with the empowerment of hindsight,in the attempt to move towards giving an account in prose of my life

To live in one’s own time is to inhabit a world where we encounter and live with aesthetics that were largely others’ ideas and preferences.

"I think that our desire to make history about the present all the time actually kind of robs it of something. We miss the point of just...