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This is completely unrelated to all things music and jazzfest; just something I'm passionate about and felt like sharing. The Essays of Montaigne, Montaigne's only book, and one he reworked and revised over a 35 year period, might be the greatest text ever produced by a single human being.
Here are some nice quotes about Montaigne from other writers who loved him:
"Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers" -Ralph Where's Waldo Emerson
"This talking of oneself, following one's own vagaries, giving the whole map, weight, colour, and circumference of the soul in its confusion, its variety, its imperfection-this art belonged to one man only: to Montaigne." -Virginia Woolf
"To restore lucidity and proportion to our judgment, let us read every evening a page of Montaigne" -Saint Beuve
Montaigne is easy to sample. Many of his Essays are 3 or 4 pages long. I recommend trying a couple of them, and if you dig it, keep going. If you don't put it down and read something else
Good to be alive!
Adam in Denver
Here are some nice quotes about Montaigne from other writers who loved him:
"Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers" -Ralph Where's Waldo Emerson
"This talking of oneself, following one's own vagaries, giving the whole map, weight, colour, and circumference of the soul in its confusion, its variety, its imperfection-this art belonged to one man only: to Montaigne." -Virginia Woolf
"To restore lucidity and proportion to our judgment, let us read every evening a page of Montaigne" -Saint Beuve
Montaigne is easy to sample. Many of his Essays are 3 or 4 pages long. I recommend trying a couple of them, and if you dig it, keep going. If you don't put it down and read something else
Good to be alive!
Adam in Denver