Category: books

• Too Fast, Too Paris

  There’s comfort to not being terrorized by the thought that one’s action or inaction contributes to an inevitable future at the mercy of eventual degeneration.

  Evan Tan

  June 30, 2022

  art, books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, travel

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• Is There Really A Self? (& 10 PM Explorations of Being)

  What if, as Plato said in his allegory of the cave, we only see shadows of reality, and that is because of the frailty that is our humanity?

  Evan Tan

  February 4, 2020

  books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, reflections

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