This Week - Jul 05, 2013

From this distance, of course, it’s clear what I was doing wrong: I was reading far too much significance into things and, worse, cared more about the supposed significance of things than the things themselves...Yet looking back on that awful year I can see how desperate I was to give form to my bad luck, to give my individual life narrative scale...'Il faut choisir: vivre ou raconter,' Sartre wrote in La nausée; between living one’s life or narrating it you can choose only one.

— At thirty (Jason Farago)