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- Essays. Some of the better substacks are worth collecting and publishing as books, like Montaigne's Essais.
A newsletter is for events, essays are for ideas and reasoning. Substack is a good place for the latter.
- Essais - Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
- If a child cannot understand the scope and themes of, say, Montaigne's Essais, is this a fault of Montaigne's? The Pendulum is similarly loaded with concepts and ideas.
- I wrote a master’s thesis on Montaigne (specifically on a publishing system for his Essais) and I think it’s a decently topical name. The Essais really were more like blog posts than like what we now call an essay.
- > There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Michel de Montaigne, Essais)
Albert Camus dancing (Life Magazine): https://coreyrobin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/albert-cam...
- Some fairly hefty books have been written with a pen. Consider something like The City of God, or The Enneads, or the Essais of Montaigne.
If anything, I think they were better for it. A slow writing medium means a lot more thought went into each page. Nobody in their right mind would spend hours arduously writing a buzzfeed listicle with a goose feather, such low-effort writing is only possible when writing is effortless. The fact that effort went into the actual writing usually means that effort also went into considering what was to be written.
