HeyJaredStumblings
Books I've stumbled onto, people I've stumbled into. A former homeschooler's approach to Substack, featuring idiosyncratic resources for nerds and oddballs.
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It’s All Greek To Me (opens the original)
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A Weekend with Tom Stoppard (opens the original)
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This week I’ve been preparing to audition for a college production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by reading the 1993 play in its entirety. I auditioned and it went well; I got a callback and it went well. As I write this I’m waiting to hear back from the director about final casting and my stomach is in knots. Et in Arcadia non ego—I’m in its waiting room.But even if I don’t get into the play, I tell myself, the days spent reading and thinking about
Horace, Revisited (opens the original)
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Three years ago, almost to the day, I published my third-ever Substack post. It was an original translation of the Roman poet Horace’s first ode and a meditation on the existential nightmare that is the “Future Plans” section of the college application. At seventeen I seemed very anxious about having a “prescribed type of job” and very skeptical of any education that would comfortably get me one. (I was naively dead-set on the path of penury, having learned nothing from my ph
First Thoughts on War and Peace (opens the original)
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Stumblings Goes to (Normal) College! (opens the original)
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