Henrik Karlsson

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  • Pillow Book Loved

    A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2025-06-15

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  • Brown and Blue Notebooks Loved

    A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2025-06-15

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  • Carnets Loved

    A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

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  • Conquest of the Useless Loved

    A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2025-06-15

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  • Pensées Loved

    A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2025-06-15

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  • Harry Potter Liked

    There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2024-04-02

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  • The Little House on the Prairie Liked

    There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.

    escapingflatland.substack.com 2024-04-02

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  • On child birth 29 Jul
  • How can we rejuvenate the social fabric? 8 Jul
  • Escaping Flatland meetups summer 2026: times and places 25 Jun
  • How not to forget what matters 22 Jun

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  • Notes on Bakhtin 2 Jun
  • Love is about being invested in someone’s continual expansion 20 May
  • The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot 6 May
  • Thoughts about making a career as a writer 27 Apr
  • How to walk through walls 14 Apr
  • Days are enormous 1 Apr
  • Some relationships deepen when you tell the truth and some end 11 Mar
  • Getting a better sense for when you’re thinking well and when you’re faking it 26 Feb
  • The need to make art 18 Feb
  • Pensées 15 Jun 2025 Loved
  • Conquest of the Useless 15 Jun 2025 Loved
  • Carnets 15 Jun 2025 Loved
  • Brown and Blue Notebooks 15 Jun 2025 Loved
  • Pillow Book 15 Jun 2025 Loved
  • The Little House on the Prairie 2 Apr 2024 Liked
  • Harry Potter 2 Apr 2024 Liked