Michel de Montaigne is thirty-eight years old when he retires to the tower of his chateau in southwestern France. The year is 1571 and the average life span of a French nobleman is fifty-four. So his retreat from the world is not as premature as it seems. What makes his retirement unique is that instead of quickly resorting to a trending sixteenth-century hobby such as tennis or sewage system upgrades, the fourth Seigneur de Montaigne spends all of his free time taking copiou

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here. (Stephen Dedalus) This haiku-like thought from Episode 3 of Ulysses is a...

I don't know where "a reader" comes from and where "a reader" is going. This is why I'm alarmed (even though there is no cause for alarm).