“I think, therefore I am.”
René Descartes · 1637
The School of Athens · Raphael · 1509
Toghrul Guluzade
Scriptorium
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A simple place to keep my thoughts, views, and logs. Nothing fancy, nothing made specifically for the public. But if you’d like to visit my inner world, feel free to look around.
Reading
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
424 / 704 · 60%
Watched
Project Hail Mary
Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Attended
Hamlet
Almeida Theatre, London
Listening
Goldberg Variations
Glenn Gould
Latest writing
May 29, 2026 · 4 min read
What Carried Us Through?
Imagine a modern human stepping back from their desktop and walking out into the hills, barefoot, where cold water burns their feet, the terrain batters them, and high bushes scratch their arms and l…
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Seven countries, each with its own impression.
Marginalia
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
Plato, Apology
I have written about this painting at length elsewhere, but the painting deserves its own page here. It is the picture I return to most often.
Raphael · The School of Athens · 1509–1511
Vermeer painted thirty-six pictures that we know of. The Astronomer is one of two that depict men working — the other is The Geographer, painted the following year and almost certainly of the same model.
Johannes Vermeer · The Astronomer · 1668
It was a studio work from Andrea del Verrocchio, where Leonardo da Vinci was working in his workshop. In that specific painting, Leonardo painted the left angel.
Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci · The Baptism of Christ · 1472–1475
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