Finished reading: Mary by Vladimir Nabokov 📚
Huh! 😭
For this year’s Girlfriends' Day, I wrote this article on my Substack
Currently reading: Mary by Vladimir Nabokov 📚
There’s something strangely familiar about how most of the the Russian writers talk about love, first love especially. This too just somehow sits on the same spectrum as Ivan Turgenev’s First Love and Dostoevsky’s White Nights. It is good🔥 In fact, so good, I just might have to read it again as I feel there’s a bit I am missing on this first read.
A troubling passage about narcissism: Grandiose Narcissists vs Vulnerable Narcissists
From Rob Henderson's The Logic of Envy In The New Science of Narcissism, the personality psychologist W. Keith Campbell describes two kinds of narcissists: 1. Grandiose narcissists: Dominant, extraverted, overconfident, exploitative, egotistical, low emotional distress. This is the version of narcissism people tend to be most familiar with. 2. Vulnerable narcissists: Self-centered, introverted, defensive, resentful, high emotional distress. Psychologists call them "hidden" narcissists because they don't self-promote the way the grandiose types do.
A sermon by Charles Spurgeon on the Deceitfulness of Sin
Wangari Maathai:
Finished reading: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai 📚 🔥
Just finished watching: Panchayat S1E4, Hamara Neta Kaisa Ho? 📺 Really good, and funny!
I find this interesting, First Things About page:
The Institute on Religion and Public Life is a 501(c)3 organization and the publisher of First Things. It was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran pastor who later became a Catholic priest.