A life in words

  • Life

    I recently had a debate with my roommate about a very significant issue: how do we as a society decide whether and for how long individuals in a “permanent vegetative state” (deliberate scare quotes) are kept on life support. Who decides the matter of the prolongation of their lives? There are a few possibilities: The…

  • Did you know…

    That one of the main themes in the soundtrack from The Hudsucker Proxy comes from the adagio from Spartacus? Neither did I.

  • ¿Y México? ¡Se fue!

    Some seemingly bad news: my trip to Mexico has been canceled on account of insufficient applicants. Not enough people going means the trip would have been prohibitively expensive. Sad, huh! Now what do I do? I don’t know. Do I look for a different program out of the country? Or try to find some classes…

Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself.Tara Westover, Educated, p. 197