Peter Blair
@peterblair.bsky.social
Here because of addict behavior
Good morning open.spotify.com/track/2I88WC...
Amidinin War Hi Toyed
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February 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Good morning open.spotify.com/track/2I88WC...
“These were exceedingly precarious footholds, though it’s true that for anyone writing in German, Goethe is their Homer” -Roberto Calasso, commenting on the antecedents (which included a passage by Goethe) for Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
“These were exceedingly precarious footholds, though it’s true that for anyone writing in German, Goethe is their Homer” -Roberto Calasso, commenting on the antecedents (which included a passage by Goethe) for Freud’s “Moses and Monotheism”
Wild Pink @ MilkBoy Philadelphia
February 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Wild Pink @ MilkBoy Philadelphia
“For a long time people found it hard to accept that nothing should be known of Abraham, the patriarch, until, in his old age, Yahweh spoke to him…But what makes Genesis special, powerful and unique was precisely this empty space” -Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“For a long time people found it hard to accept that nothing should be known of Abraham, the patriarch, until, in his old age, Yahweh spoke to him…But what makes Genesis special, powerful and unique was precisely this empty space” -Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books
Snow weekend plans
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Snow weekend plans
“Fatal meetings tend to happen near wells. As with Rebecca, or Rachel, or with Demeter in Eleusis.” -Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“Fatal meetings tend to happen near wells. As with Rebecca, or Rachel, or with Demeter in Eleusis.” -Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books
Love Robert Alter on the arc of Jacob’s life: “The powerful young man who made his way across the Jordan to Mesopotamia with only his walking staff…is now an old man tottering on the brink of the grave, bearing the deep wounds of his long life”
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Love Robert Alter on the arc of Jacob’s life: “The powerful young man who made his way across the Jordan to Mesopotamia with only his walking staff…is now an old man tottering on the brink of the grave, bearing the deep wounds of his long life”
Robert Alter 🤝 Henri de Lubac: footnotes that take up 2/3rds of the page
January 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Robert Alter 🤝 Henri de Lubac: footnotes that take up 2/3rds of the page
In 2026, we’re Genesis-maxxing
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
In 2026, we’re Genesis-maxxing
Cracking up (from Calvino’s “Cosmicomics”)
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Cracking up (from Calvino’s “Cosmicomics”)
Seems timely to reup this one peterblair.substack.com/p/moralism-r...
Moralism, Realism, Morality
How we understand ourselves, our nature, and our powers becomes a self-fulfilling picture of reality.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Seems timely to reup this one peterblair.substack.com/p/moralism-r...
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Killers of the Flower Moon (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
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January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Bringing back all of my favorite deceased writers about 20th/ early 21st century American politics for one last job: to write about the NY-12 Dem primary
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Bringing back all of my favorite deceased writers about 20th/ early 21st century American politics for one last job: to write about the NY-12 Dem primary
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Masaru Imada trio - Green Caterpillar (1975)
YouTube video by JazzNote'89
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January 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Good afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLh...
"And since in all confidence you follow Christ, who today appeared in the world as a light shining in darkness, may God make you, too, a light for your brothers and sisters." (From the solemn blessing for the Epiphany)
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
"And since in all confidence you follow Christ, who today appeared in the world as a light shining in darkness, may God make you, too, a light for your brothers and sisters." (From the solemn blessing for the Epiphany)
La Chimera is an Epiphany movie
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
La Chimera is an Epiphany movie
A post in the commonplace book style about new year's resolutions to kick off 2026
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New Year's Resolutions
A Commonplace Post
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January 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
A post in the commonplace book style about new year's resolutions to kick off 2026
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This is what I read in 2025. Thoughts on some of these books here open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is what I read in 2025. Thoughts on some of these books here open.substack.com/pub/peterbla...
Joan Didion, “Inside Baseball” (1988)
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Joan Didion, “Inside Baseball” (1988)
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Every Éric Rohmer movie (just watched My Night at Maud’s)
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Try and try and try/
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
And try and try and try/
To be simple again
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The whole universe was created by God, God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God…Without God's Son, nothing could exist; without Mary's Son, nothing could be redeemed.” -St. Anselm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!