Matt Kaul

Matt Kaul

'What man needs is silence & warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.' ~Simone Weil

Reading

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The Power Broker

Robert A. Caro

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    Surprise spaghetti night with “nampa Kim”!

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the Reading of Fairy Tales

    My Father (who had so little of parental ambition in him, that he had destined his children to be Blacksmiths &c, & had accomplished his intention but for my Mother’s pride & spirit of aggrandizing her family) my father had however …

    Marilynne Robinson on the Beauty of Classic Language

    I like dealing with people whose vocabulary and worldview is less media–saturated than ours is. I think that there is an acceleration of a kind of slang shorthand that is very characteristic of our period but not especially beautiful. It is meant …
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    Mesmerized by hopping animals. #Walker75

    Philip Roth on Richard Stern

    I met Dick in the fall of 1956, and thus was initiated a fifty-seven-year-long literary conversation and friendship. In 1956, Dick was just starting out in the University of Chicago English department while I was teaching freshman composition in …
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    Nightly reading to Curious George in the laundry basket.

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    Christmas reading with uncle @andrewkaul and auntie @baileekaul h/t on Once Upon an Alphabet: @brainpicker

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    Costin Christmas

    Jonathan Rée on Foucault

    He could not cover the whole story in his six lectures at Louvain, but he got under way with detailed expositions of a ceremonial chariot race in the Iliad and Oedipus’ belated recognition of his guilt in Oedipus Rex. Between these two moments, …

    Jonathan Yardley on Book Reviewing

    I came to this task as a journalist, not a literateur, and I have remained one to this day. I have high literary standards and delight in the expression of strong opinion, literary and otherwise, but I also read a book as if I were a reporter: …
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    Beautiful morning. #latergram

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    The moment I’ve been waiting for. #windinthewillows

    Mill on Annotated Reading

    For the first year or two after my visit to France, I continued my old studies, with the addition of some new ones. When I returned, my father was just finishing for the press his Elements of Political Economy, and he made me perform an exercise …
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    Snow snow snow!

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    Halloween!

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    I love you most of all, my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

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    Afternoon at the lake. #latergram

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    Piano with grandpa

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    In a corn hole world, horseshoes doesn’t stand a chance.

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    A moment with Schiller on my ride into work this morning.

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    Blankets! With uncle @andrewkaul

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    Scoping out the lake.

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    Costin family photo day @karincostin @kristacostin @ryanleedawes @fargofd

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    Somebody smudged the mirror @askovfinlayson… @andrewkaul