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In Aristotle’s Nichomachean ethics, he says virtues don’t exist as opposites to vices, but among them, in the strain between them. Bravery, for example, is not in the absence of fear, but inside the tension between fear and rage. TemperanceRead more…
Rick Steve is a real person, apparently, and he writes guidebooks. He rocks. He doesn’t send you to dives, like LP does sometimes. He urges you to be a reasonable traveler, and not to be quite as American as youRead more…
I appreciate the way all trips abroad are Pilgrimage. We rise long before dawn. We pack what is precious. We go via unpredictable means to strange places where even the smells are familiar but strange. Nihil sub sole novum. There’sRead more…