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\n","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/08/28/194334.html","date_published":"2025-08-29T02:43:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-29 02:43","date_timestamp":1756435414,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68589942","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780801818301/cover.jpg\")
Currently reading: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel by René Girard 📚
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/07/09/currently-reading-deceit-desire-and.html","date_published":"2025-07-09T20:30:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-09 20:30","date_timestamp":1752093025,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68589686","content_html":"“The great novelists reveal the imitative nature of desire. In our days its nature is hard to perceive because the most fervent imitation is the most vigorously denied. Don Quixote proclaimed himself the disciple of Amadis and the writers of his time proclaimed themselves the disciples of the Ancients. The romantic vaniteux does not want to be anyone’s disciple. He convinces himself that he is thoroughly original.
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Finished reading: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 📚 Just Book I though. I’ll plan to read Book II next summer perhaps.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/07/09/finished-reading-don-quixote-by.html","date_published":"2025-07-09T20:25:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-09 20:25","date_timestamp":1752092709,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68512719","content_html":"Published “Passport to Pascal’s Pensees” on my blog and Substack.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/07/08/published-passport-to-pascals-pensees.html","date_published":"2025-07-08T21:53:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-08 21:53","date_timestamp":1752011629,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"68138990","content_html":"@ayjay Dr. Jacobs, you write in this post, “What’s especially interesting about this idea, for the biographer of Sayers…”. Does this suggest you are writing (or planning to write) her biography? I would pre-order that book! 😄
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/68138990","date_published":"2025-07-03T16:12:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-07-03 16:12","date_timestamp":1751559154,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"67298731","content_html":"Currently reading: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 📚\n\nChapter XXXIX: In which the captive narrates the events of his life.\n\nIn the episode following the reconciliation of the two separated couples–Don Fernando and Dorotea, and Don Cardenio and Luscinda–a mysterious traveler arrives at the inn “who appeared from his attire to be a Christian recently returned from the land of the Moors.” After dinner, the company begs him to reveal his story and he begins by relating how years earlier, his father had promised to bestow on him and his two brothers an immediate share of their inheritance if they wou... adhunt.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/06/21/currently-reading-don-quixote-by.html","date_published":"2025-06-22T03:21:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-22 03:21","date_timestamp":1750562468,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67279558","content_html":"@wcaleb Oh I see. This context is helpful, thank you. I agree that the last statement appears ahistorical from the perspective of your article. But it sparks a further question: if the proliferation of the press from 1750-1850 lead to the democratization of reading—ie a greater ability to curate/cultivate one’s own reading and opinions—might AI reverse this process by consuming and regurgitating information for the user?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/67279558","date_published":"2025-06-21T17:08:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-21 17:08","date_timestamp":1750525739,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"67274140","content_html":"@wcaleb Thank you Dr. Caleb. I enjoyed your article and its early insights on the phenomenon of blogging. Would you update any of these observations today? For example: how do you think generational reading habits have been affected by the evolution of technology in the ensuing years since you wrote this? Are they—as many claim—in decline?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/67274140","date_published":"2025-06-21T14:47:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-21 14:47","date_timestamp":1750517245,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"67239680","content_html":"Cᴂdmon's Hymn and Modern Literary Criticism: adhunt.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/2025/06/20/cdmons-hymn-and-modern-literary.html","date_published":"2025-06-20T19:50:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-20 19:50","date_timestamp":1750449000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67223620","content_html":"@frjonjordan Of course! So good, thanks for sharing. 🩵
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/67223620","date_published":"2025-06-20T15:20:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-20 15:20","date_timestamp":1750432850,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"67186931","content_html":"@frjonjordan Insightful. What book is this from?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/67186931","date_published":"2025-06-20T03:13:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-20 03:13","date_timestamp":1750389236,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"66793235","content_html":"@ayjay Great advice, thank you!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/66793235","date_published":"2025-06-15T01:43:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-15 01:43","date_timestamp":1749951795,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"66761099","content_html":"@ayjay Congratulations! Got the Amazon email yesterday and it looks wonderful. I plan to read it next year when my book club tackles Paradise Lost. (We just finished Areopagitica.) For a first-time reader, do you recommend reading the poem or your book first—or to read them together?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/hunts2030/66761099","date_published":"2025-06-14T15:20:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Amy Hunt","url":"https://adhunt.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F23%2F1791361.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"hunts2030"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-14 15:20","date_timestamp":1749914438,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"66729124","content_html":"June Reading: \"Don Quixote de la Mancha\" by Miguel de Cervantes : adhunt.micro.blog
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Currently reading: Pensees by Blaise Pascal for my Great Books reading group.📚
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