duanetoops, to bookstodon
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This is the third time Samuel Johnson has come across my path recently. It's clear the universe is shaming me for having not read him.

https://booksthatmadeus.substack.com/p/you-can-never-be-wise-until-you-learn

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the_roamer,
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Great, loving essay on Samuel Johnson by Henry Oliver, thank you for the link.

Oliver is right, there isn't one special book that defines Johnson, each of his works somehow feels a little unremarkable in isolation. It's Johnson's tone, the reflective posture, that make him.

And Oliver callling Johnson the JS Bach of English prose is ingenious. Jup, Johnson is the Bach of English prose.

pivic, to bookstodon
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Mavis Gallant on style. https://bookrastinating.com/user/pivic/quotation/291386#anchor-291386

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Nice to see people so involved with Obsidian here!

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