Alan Jacobs, on reading Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter With Things:

What an infuriating endeavor. … I began as an exceptionally sympathetic reader and now want to throw these volumes as far from me as possible. 

It’s funny because I began as an exceptionally sympathetic reader of Jacobs, but lately…

This is a reminder that I need to sit down and finish that last defense of Kingsnorth. It’s mostly written; I just haven’t felt like finishing it. But Jacobs is one of the reasons why I haven’t. And of course, the fact that I have a one-month-old and a two-year-old at home.