What sets the arts apart from other pursuits? Emotional satisfaction? Performance? Aesthetic appreciation? Sure, all of these things are important parts of art, but what truly sets apart an art is that its activity is one done for its own sake. When a painter paints, he does so because the painting is an end in …
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Tsundoku and Good Habits
Note: This article was written on April 1, 2020. No, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. Confession: I have tsundoku problem. According to Wikipedia, the bastion of weird information on the Internet, tsundoku is a bit of Japanese slang, a portmanteau formed from the Japanese words “tsude-oku” (meaning “to pile things up to use later”) …