Meingast on Vacation

All this (I sweep my hands out in front of me) that I ostend, these Prussian meadows with their red poppies, with their pale caducous calyxes, the black firs ru...

Pets

By all accounts, Meingast was fond of animals. In 1910 or 1911, he adopted two kittens. Dr. Marie de Besombes (a librarian at the BNF) thinks there’s a go...

On Practical Reasoning

From Insouciance in Deliberation (1899):  To really deliberate, that is, to vividly imagine oneself persisting into one future, adjusting that mysterious stew o...

Hallowed Hollowness

From “Hallowed Hollowness: On Machines and Modernity”: “The modern man of science wonders to himself, “If I were to arrange things thus-...