https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/ Recent content in Essays on George's Blog Hugo en-US Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/solaris/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/solaris/ Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, language and the void, and why contact might never mean mutual understanding. https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/the-fall/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:32:36 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/the-fall/ Long-form essay on Camus’s The Fall—the same piece as under Reviews, listed here as an essay. https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/history-of-european-morals-from-augustus-to-charlemagne/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:35 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/history-of-european-morals-from-augustus-to-charlemagne/ Long-form notes on Lecky’s moral history—the same piece as under Reviews, listed here as an essay. https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/historical-turmoil/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/historical-turmoil/ Dostoyevsky’s underground man, Copernican shame, Darwin, the stone wall, and why consciousness without illusion slides toward spite and inertia. https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/humanity-from-a-planetary-perspective/ Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/essays/humanity-from-a-planetary-perspective/ History as moral narrative versus natural fractal systems—humanity as pattern, not protagonist.