I kinda remember being mad like twenty years ago that every other move needed to be considered with an “in my experience, __” prefix and this is how long it took me to connect it? wild

a move I’ve noticed cool hip with-it conflict-avoidant people do which I’ve decided to try to do is to make more claims about my own experience than I normally would because it feels redundant or just a lot of work to do all the time

so instead of “you should __" or “people should __” I try to go with with “I have __ and here’s how it worked out for me, to me.”

I picked up the inferno (this hollander one https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander ) off my now two-shelf long to-read, half-read, and probably dnfing pile because I’m about to get to it in the Berkeley philosophy lectures I I’m listening to on walks anymore (Dreyfus mentioned previously, https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619) and it’s in the form canto, commentary on canto, canto 2, commentary on canto 2, and so on

ffs