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Month: September 2021

Kick Me Reader: Diary, 9/27 to 9/30/21

Cleese's autobio; The Wind; troubled dreams; Quine, the unspeakable, philosophy; Zack Snyder's Justice League; purchasing blunder; $300 for a reader.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Autobiography & Memoirs, Diary, Dreams, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Philosophy, The Writing Life 1 Comment September 30, 2021 6 Minutes

Finished My Book: Diary, 9/20 to 9/26/21

Joy and depression; Tasty Words a hit at Hemlock Club; purple hair; no free car, sorry; Bullet Journal; a Simpsons dream; homeless family.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Bullet Journal, Diary, Dreams, Hemlock Club, Humor, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Tasty Words, The Writing Life 1 Comment September 26, 2021 6 Minutes

“Red Shoes” Diary, 9/13 to 9/19/21

Free car? Cindy Crabb, Nietzsche, and Cioran quotes; movies; Red Shoes on PBS; the missing pen mystery; final edit of my book!

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Dreams, Horror, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Old Age, Philosophy, Quotes 1 Comment September 20, 2021 7 Minutes

Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21

In which I argue with, or go beyond, quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Walter Kaufmann, and Bertrand Russell. Plus movie review and Hemlock Club notes and the usual blather.

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Rewriting Lessons: Diary, 9/6 to 9/10/21

Dreams; books and movies; "hopefully"; Dickens and Camus quotes; Matrix: Resurrections; twitter quote; rewriting lessons.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Dreams, Horror, Humor, Movie Reviews, Quotes, Twitter stuff, Writing theory Leave a comment September 10, 2021 8 Minutes

Club Notes: Diary, 9/2 to 9/5/21

Bad movies reviewed; Nietzsche's Gay Science; John Cleese book; Hemlock Club discussion of Gandhi, Napoleon, Tolstoy, and Meaning of Life; Pablo's sadness; bedbugs slaughtered.

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Good & Evil & Movies: Diary, 8/28 to 9/1/21

Horror & other DVDs; Nietzsche quote leading to good and evil muddle; nothing else worth a mention.

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  • Home
    • Archive Index
    • Hemlock Club
    • Viagra: My Desperate Gamble
    • 2020: The Worst Year of My Life
    • About
      • Finding Oliver
      • Ingratitude
      • Three Oldsters on Thanksgiving
      • I am Racist, a chapter of Kick Me
      • Thoughts About Seventeen Dead Children
      • Kick Me, Part 3: I am the World’s Worst Clown
    • Doom, Camus, and Breakfast
  • Fiction, Misc.
    • Hap: The Story So Far
    • Hap the Crystalwright: Part One
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Two
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Three
    • Enchanted House
    • NO-SEE-UM
    • Classical Music We’ll Never Hear
  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
    • Poetry Sketchbook
    • Amateur Haiku

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