Last Friday’s letter, “Against Prognostication,” began with a collage I made around a drawing Warren Craghead sent me on a postcard and continued:
In brain-scrambling times like these, I like to read old books. I’m currently reading one of Michel de Montaigne’s essays every morning to avoid a.m. doomscrolling. 400 years ago, Montaigne wrote in “On Prognostications” about “the stubborn curiosity of our nature which delights in worrying about the future as if it had not enough to deal with in the present.” He then quotes Lucian: “Let the mind of men be blind to what is to be. May those who fear be permitted to hope.”
The letter ended with this page from Keep Going (which is only $1.99 on ebook for the rest of the month):
You can read the rest of the letter here.