My name is Clay and I am an amateur philosopher.

I love to read, think about what I’m reading, and – on the off-chance that someone else is also interested – I even sometimes like to talk about what I’m reading.

I do not have a planned program of study for this blog. Instead, I intend to read as I normally would, based upon my interests and on themes that I find emerging in texts, and reflecting here in these responses on the interpretation, the meaning, of what is being said by philosophers like Nietzsche, novelists like Fyodor Dostoevsky, and dramatists like Wolfgang Von Goethe. I hope that, by writing these posts, I am able to practice developing my own interpretations of the books that I find meaningful while sharing this usually solitary aspect of my life with others.

So, check in for weekly posts, leave some comments, and peruse my growing digital bookshelf (full of everything I reference in my posts) to do your own reading. Thank you!

-Clay

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