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Basque Philosopher

@stowerarebooks.bsky.social
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Can you believe it? A Basque Philosopher who has a side gig as a rare book dealer. Anything is possible in Vermont! #StoweRareBooks

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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My next paper will delve into the shared principles underlying sweet dreams and sugar in your coffee. It will be written in the form of a dialectic. Sort of a yin and yang approach to one of the deeper questions that has been haunting human civilization since at least the 1500's
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The only acceptable use of Claude
Claude Rains in Casablanca
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In Paris I just picked up a 1st edition of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. Soon to be for sale at Stowe Rare Books.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Not now Lyndon . . . "
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Attempts to express deep human emotion through music have never overcome the criticism that such efforts do nothing more than strike up the band, Mahler notwithstanding.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When things don't add up, I subtract them . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Keeping up is, I repeat, a form of falling. behind.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
On the bad side my new piano tech broke a string. On the good side, when he comes tomorrow and replaces the string we shall part ways. Looking for piano tuners is always a process until you find the right one.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Aye.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Vermont's version of a hurt locker- waterfall freeze up.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Keeping pace often feels like trying to catch up while falling further and further behind.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sometimes a rare book dealer becomes a collector. Recent acquisitions for my personal library are a reproduction of the original Gutenberg bible, Don Quixote, considered the first novel, illustrated by Gustave Doré whose images are iconic. And, finally, David Copperfield, Dickens' first person tale.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Sometimes the only way to fix your smile (and improve your health) is to yank all your teeth. Not recommended if you can avoid it, but if you have to - do it. I feel a thousand percent better have drastically lowered my chances of heart attack and stroke, and can smile for pictures.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Growing up I learned Schubert impromptus but not his piano sonatas or pieces for four hands. Richter's recording of Sonata No 18 and Mitsuko Uchida's recording of Sonata No 21 are not to be missed. His Fantasie in F Minor for four hands, especially the Lulu/Perahia recording is serene.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I'm having trouble with the idea that time is a construct that is not in alignment with the way things really unfold. Parallel universes and simultaneous everything are of no help either. Are you saying there is no history, no record of the linear progress of the universe? Geesh.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Calamity is the mother of prevention.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Six inches or more of snow on the ground. Then 50 degree temperatures for two days leaving slush on the ground. Below freezing temperatures overnight turning slush into slippery ice everywhere. Time to try out my new Icebug boots from Sweden with built in metal traction nubbies.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Three more days and then the hours of daylight will start increasing again. A good reason for a little party, or at least the playing of a bagpipe. No?
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It’s been snowing a wee bit . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A day for a good meal, a walk with Odie, good music on the stereo, some leisure reading by the purring wood stove and some libations. Thankful.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
All of my days are yesterdays. Capiche?
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Being non-verbal, I am plus, plus, plus . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I'm available in lots of 20 . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yesterday, the movers managed to get my furniture from Stowe to my cabin in Adamant with only one bookshelf dropped and badly damaged. I consider that a victory. A screwdriver, some wood screws and about 15 hours of trying to figure out how to put the bookshelf back together should fix the damage.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Years ago my parents surprised me with the git of a Steinway piano. The piano has followed me from our family home in California to Stowe and now to a cabin in Adamant, Vermont. I had the piano refurbished and it is like having a new piano again. I had to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The sound of geese on the pond below . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Are we at an impasse?
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I found a lost shadow in the woods and took him in. I had lost my shadow only a year ago when I moved to a cabin in the woods. What a moment of kismet; a shadowless man finds a manless shadow at a time of mutual need.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A day full of the colors of Fall here in Vermont with sunshine promised for later in the day to boot.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Out for a row.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Having a puppy to entertain, feed, exercise and water is cutting down on my social media availability. I'm just going to have to learn how to squeeze more out of my day.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Confession: My love of beauty and nice things has led me to abandon Plato's Cave in favor of Aladdin's Cave.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Dog curled up at my feet. Feeling the love.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Jolly Roger ordered to be hoisted during raids on unsuspecting canoeists and kayakers on Vermont's ponds. Just acquired a used handmade wooden dory made by Lowell's Boat Shop which has been making dories since 1793. It can be configured as either a rowboat or sailboat. Arrr matey!
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Odie doing the "Indy 500" around the yard.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Where’s Odie? (a tribute to Where’s Pip?)
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My constraints have fallen away like dead leaves in the Fall.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Adulting can be injurious to your health.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I sit like a cat in the window watching the world go by.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Back from a week long rare book dealer seminar held at St. Olaf’s College. Great people, great course, learned a lot.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Overheard: “The math maths.” Or, alternatively: “The maths math.”
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Let me introduce the newest member of the family, Odie. Technically, she will be arriving July 22nd but we've already had our first vet checkup with lots of treats.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Living in the forest underscores quite early on the need for daily - if not twice a day - broom sweeping of the downstairs parts of the cabin.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Confession: I think of myself as Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, only without the jealousy and insecurity.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I happen to things . . .
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Summer is finally settling in here in the Northwoods.
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Basque Philosopher @stowerarebooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sometimes I feel more like a philosophy voyeur than a real philosopher.
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