Marginalia: On the strange thing.

Hi all, 

I hope you and your loved ones are well, wherever you find yourselves on this magnificent and difficult blue orb of ours. Like many, I am finding it onerous to get through anything that requires deep attention. I won’t be one of those people who have taken this opportunity to read War and Peace/Moby Dick/any other long classic. Still, I am forcing myself to reach for the book rather than screen on most nights, and slowly getting through some pretty fantastic stuff.

I am finding, too, that...