I have a few things I have been working on this week that have made it difficult to carve out the time to write a proper post. So in lieu of that, I wanted to share a passage from The Man without Qualities, by Robert Musil. I have been participating in a group reading of the novel that was organized by Merve Emre on twitter. It’s almost parodically a “novel of ideas”—in fact, it truly is parodying the “novel of ideas” even as it exists as one of the finest instances of the form—and so therefore germane to this blog Read more