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Books, films, and lectures summarized with citations, links, and some commentary. Get the main idea before you read or in order to find that perfect, sourced, quotation. (Table of Contents: https://medium.com/thrice-removed/contents-5f9471edfc5c)

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Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Jul 16, 2022

Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life

Why we continue to waste time, and how to stop!

I had a brief Facebook conversation with Massimo Pigliucci about my decision to fritter away a morning watching the rain and petting my cat. He said, “It’s up to you to determine whether your…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Jul 16, 2022

Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness

Some old-school self-help!

Some Russell quotations have been floating around lately, so I read The Conquest of Happiness, first published in 1930, and, boy, did I need this right now! The main ideas and some bits I liked are…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Jul 16, 2022

Greenblatt’s The Swerve

On addictive pleasure and the fear of death.

I recently read Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, a book about the hiding and finding of the 1st century poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, which is a tribute to Epicurus and his philosophy. Lucretius writes…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Jul 16, 2022

Contents for Thrice Removed

Alphabetical list so older posts don’t get lost in the shuffle! (Original date of writing included — many of these were moved here from older blogs.)

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Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Mar 18, 2020

Everything is F*cked

A critique of Mark Manson’s book, with lots of philosophy for fun!

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Aug 12, 2017

On How to be Happy

On Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents

At 74, after the roaring twenties came to an end, and the depression was just beginning to settle in a while, Freud wrote Civilization and its Discontents. This was a few years before the Nazis would allow him to leave the…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Aug 12, 2017

On God, Our Invisible Parents

On Freud’s Future of an Illusion

A couple of years after Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud wrote Future of an Illusion to clarify why so many people believe in God and why this is a problem for society. All throughout the book he’s guided along by…

Marie Snyder in Thrice Removed

Nov 20, 2016

No Impact Man

“…There are two kinds of asceticism: one that is a fundamental rejection of creation…