🍂 Footnotes #5 | Antidote to Consumerism
In this edition: Marguerite Yourcenar, Oliver Burkeman, Gustave Flaubert, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and others
💭 Word of the week:
Amor fati - ‘love of one’s fate’. A philosophy of life in which you view every event as a necessary part of the journey that must be accepted and embraced.
It’s often the greatest books that are the most challenging to review and Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian is one of them. Her writing…
