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Semi interesting musings on the difference between unhappiness and despair from Kieran Setiya.
The nub of the argument:
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…if despair is unhappiness about the impossibility of achieving some good, the good must be an object of commitment – or else irrelevant to one’s happiness – and so it must be something one thinks one could achieve. At [...]

work in progress………
“I looked around me and realised that if I didn’t do something, I would die here. I knew that I didn’t want that.”
Gitana was 38 when she left Lithuania, the only country she had never known, for a country she had never seen. The decision to move to London was made at a [...]

Read the ee cummings poem
Is it just that Buffalo Bill is dead, or is it that he is outdated? Certainly, he outlived the golden years of the Wild West - he died in 1917 (he was born in 1846). There is also the slight ambiguity as to whether it is Jesus or Buffalo Bill that [...]

I stumbled across this article on the meaning of life by Richard Taylor.
I will write a comment tomorrow.