Me: “So I’m going to wind down today with a hot mug of ginger tea and make some progress on that book on the history of pragmatic thought …”
Also me, two hours later (after the entire civil war section of the book): “what the actual fuck.”
Conversation
I think a general rule of thumb I’m beginning to see is that the history of ideas (as opposed to the history of businesses, or wars) are always far weirder than I can imagine them to be.