Sedan en vecka tillbaka befinner jag mig i Stockholm för att slutarbeta en bok: Känslornas mysterier, en naturhistoria. Boken består av 38 korta prosatexter, 1-15 sidor långa, sammanlagt lite under 200 små sidor. Nu har jag upptäckt något i min arbetsmetod som jag inte riktigt vet vad jag skall tänka om. Planen är att jag […]

Taxonomists like Kinsey, who understood the full implications of evolutionary theory, developed a radically different attitude to variation. Islands of form exist, to be sure: cats do not flow together in a sea of continuity, but rather come to us as lions, tigers, lynxes, tabbies, and so forth. Still, although species may be discrete, they […]

There is in every reader a myriad of potential readers, who get activated, so to speak. by the unpredictable play of innumerable factors. Those multiple readers move between the two extremes of good and evil. The reader of good reads from compassion and understanding, the reader of evil from ridicule and mocking. Would´t it be […]