Sprezzatura – “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
A term coined in 1528 termed by the Italian… (Read More)
I’m one of those annoying people who can pretty much only work in complete silence but recently I’ve discovered that I can sort-of concentrate when I listen to music that has no lyrics. Wild, I know. Anyway, Gonzales ‘Solo… (Read More)
Avid readers (!) of this blog may have noticed that I’ve been pretty slack about updating it recently. In fact, very slack. I could launch into another rant about all the books I have to read right now (soooooo many… (Read More)
On the ‘Monkey-Minded’ post below, I realised that I forgot to provide a link to the origins of Alain de Botton’s article and then I thought that I probably should, ’cause it came from somewhere pretty interesting… (Read More)
