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The American Scholar
“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American...
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“Ornithology” by Lynda Hull

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Ornithology” by Lynda Hull appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Wuthering...
Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree. Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the...
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Daniel Kehlmann's G. W. Pabst novel The Director - Keeping it light. Keeping it carefree.

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Daniel Kehlmann’s previous novel, Tyll (2017), was about a magical clown wandering through the hellscape of the Thirty Years’ War.  Apparently that was not grim enough for him so his new novel, The Director (2023), although there is some early hopeful Hollywood sunshine, is about...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things' Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between...
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'This Greedy Appetite for New and Unknown Things'

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Montaigne’s Travel Journal recounts his wanderings through Germany, Switzerland and Italy between June 1580 and November 1581. He sought relief from the pain of kidney stones and visited numerous spas with mineral baths. As always, Montaigne is curious about everything – not just...
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The American Scholar
Dan Lynh Pham Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Dan Lynh Pham

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Labor of love The post Dan Lynh Pham appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Something Which Longs to Be Filled' An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured...
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'Something Which Longs to Be Filled'

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An American children’s book published in 1908 reminded me of a metaphysical figment conjured by Jean-Paul Sartre. The book is The Hole Book, written and illustrated by Peter Newell. A friend who collects vintage children’s books told me about it. The verse is serviceable...
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The Marginalian
Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow...
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Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness

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There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance — the accident, the wildfire, the random intracellular mutation — are these little acts...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named' It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all...
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'Someone, I Think, Heard the Name I Named'

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It’s not fair to think of our dead as “The Dead,” a demographic category that erases all distinctions but absence. My brother (d. 2024) and Jane Greer, the North Dakota poet who died this week, would have had little in common in life. Ken had no use for poetry and he framed...
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The Marginalian
Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously,...
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Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time

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Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously, as a coping mechanism for the confusions and cataclysms of living. I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people...
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The American Scholar
The Linguistics of Brain Rot Adam Aleksic on how social media is transforming our words The post The Linguistics of Brain Rot...
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The Linguistics of Brain Rot

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Adam Aleksic on how social media is transforming our words The post The Linguistics of Brain Rot appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Actual and the Unexceptional' In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and...
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'The Actual and the Unexceptional'

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In its Summer 1965 issue, the editors of The American Scholar asked forty-two writers and critics the following question: “To what book published in the past ten years do you find yourself going back--or thinking back--most often?” I take the question personally because I turned...
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The Marginalian
A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence “True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary...
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A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence

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“True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary Snyder reflected in his reckoning with the real work of life. “We need them.” We have always needed them because we need each other, because we have always been each other’s...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'That's How a Tale Should End' With an old friend I was reminiscing about the remarkably stupid things we did when young. Neither...
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'That's How a Tale Should End'

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With an old friend I was reminiscing about the remarkably stupid things we did when young. Neither of us had much money when we were students – this was in the early seventies – and we didn’t own cars. To travel any significant distance, we thought nothing of hitchhiking. I often...
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The American Scholar
No Time at All The post No Time at All appeared first on The American Scholar.
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No Time at All

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The post No Time at All appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Would Not Be Bored' “The very catalogue of the authors whom he knew is apt to repel modern readers. We forget that we...
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'He Would Not Be Bored'

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“The very catalogue of the authors whom he knew is apt to repel modern readers. We forget that we read countless ephemeral books, magazines, and newspapers, far less worth reading: stuff which bears the same relation to literature as chewing-gum does to food.”  And that was...
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The American Scholar
“Lament” by Thom Gunn Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Lament” by Thom Gunn appeared first on The American Scholar.
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“Lament” by Thom Gunn

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Lament” by Thom Gunn appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Beware Also of Tellers of Tall Tales' Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment...
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'Beware Also of Tellers of Tall Tales'

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Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment will likely follow. “Advice is offensive,” Dr. Johnson warns. Often it is motivated not by a wish to be helpful but simply by presumptuous egotism, a desire to impose one’s will....
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The American Scholar
Puzzled In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure The post Puzzled...
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Puzzled

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In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure The post Puzzled appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen...
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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

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Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing for...
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The Elysian
We need a fourth branch of government A discussion with Marjan Ehsassi, executive director of FIDE North America, about citizens'...
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We need a fourth branch of government

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A discussion with Marjan Ehsassi, executive director of FIDE North America, about citizens' assemblies and how they can be used in politics, business, and academia.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'In My Hands the Morning They Find Me' Who remembers the first book he ever “read”? Qualifying quotes because I don’t mean some wordless...
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'In My Hands the Morning They Find Me'

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Who remembers the first book he ever “read”? Qualifying quotes because I don’t mean some wordless board-book given to an infant by optimistic relatives. I mean the real thing, with decryptable signs on the page. I can’t remember this pivotal event, though it would change my life...
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The American Scholar
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature The post A Splendor Wild and Terrifying...
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A Splendor Wild and Terrifying

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Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature The post A Splendor Wild and Terrifying appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Escaping Flatland
I went looking for friends, see what I found Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote...
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I went looking for friends, see what I found

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Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote a post about Ivan Illich that ended up, to my utter astonishment, to get read by almost a hundred people.
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The Marginalian
The Canyon and the Meaning of Life Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror. Anything to which you give yourself fully,...
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The Canyon and the Meaning of Life

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Anything you polish with attention will become a mirror. Anything to which you give yourself fully, vest all your strength and risk all your vulnerability, will return you to your life annealed, magnified, both unselved and more deeply yourself. It can be a garden, or a desert,...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Martyrs of a Future World Religion' A longtime reader and fellow blogger shares with me a taste for aphoristic writing, prose that...
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'Martyrs of a Future World Religion'

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A longtime reader and fellow blogger shares with me a taste for aphoristic writing, prose that is concise, of course, but also dense with meaning and often packing a sting. Aphorisms can be marketed as such but often they appear as a functional part of a larger text. George Eliot...
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The American Scholar
Flummoxed The post Flummoxed appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Flummoxed

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The post Flummoxed appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A New Past' Robert Conquest writing thirty-one years ago:  “Literature is the expression of our whole past, of...
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'A New Past'

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Robert Conquest writing thirty-one years ago:  “Literature is the expression of our whole past, of our whole context in life and time – and not only ours. Anatole France said that the word pleurer (to cry, to weep) in French is different from the same sort of word in every other...
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The American Scholar
“Parachutes My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Parachutes My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest...
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“Parachutes My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Parachutes My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Essays in Flesh and Bone' One of my friends is reliably cheerful. We should all have friends like him. His emails and...
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'Essays in Flesh and Bone'

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One of my friends is reliably cheerful. We should all have friends like him. His emails and telephone calls are never annoyingly cloying, in the sense that they knock me out of whatever self-centered snit I’m nursing. Without ever saying so, he reminds me that I have it pretty...
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The American Scholar
Jeanne F. Jalandoni Weaving past and present together The post Jeanne F. Jalandoni appeared first on The American...
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Jeanne F. Jalandoni

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Weaving past and present together The post Jeanne F. Jalandoni appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
Is It Not Wonderful to Be Alive: Edward Lear’s Parrots In the late summer of 1832, England was set aflame with wonder — a glimpse of something wild and...
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Is It Not Wonderful to Be Alive: Edward Lear’s Parrots

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In the late summer of 1832, England was set aflame with wonder — a glimpse of something wild and flamboyant, shimmering with the lush firstness of a world untrammeled by the boot of civilization. Edward Lear (May 12, 1812–January 29, 1888), barely out of his teens, had been...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Minority Pursuit' In comparison to the late D.G. Myers, I’m a quietist, waiting for something to happen rather...
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'A Minority Pursuit'

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In comparison to the late D.G. Myers, I’m a quietist, waiting for something to happen rather than stepping on the accelerator myself. He supplied me with more ideas and inspirations than I was ever able to offer him. A longtime reader reminds me of “The Function of Book Blogging...
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The Marginalian
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of... Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted...
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Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable

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Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted survival out of chance, the fulcrum by which we lifted civilization out of survival. Among the greatest gifts of the imagination, that crowning curio of consciousness, is our ability...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Things That Might Have Been and Were Not' An old friend has grown uncharacteristically introspective and is finding much to regret. It’s a...
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'Things That Might Have Been and Were Not'

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An old friend has grown uncharacteristically introspective and is finding much to regret. It’s a function of age. A widower in retirement from teaching high school, he seems no longer the buoyant social creature I’ve always known. In fact, I envied his gregariousness when we...
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The American Scholar
Michael Douglas Explains It All Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity The post Michael...
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Michael Douglas Explains It All

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Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity The post Michael Douglas Explains It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'After the Rain, Perhaps, Something Will Show' Most of us are born with a brain but without a user’s manual. This soggy organ weighs on average...
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'After the Rain, Perhaps, Something Will Show'

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Most of us are born with a brain but without a user’s manual. This soggy organ weighs on average about three pounds and contains 86 billion neurons. That’s our birthright, and we did nothing to earn it. We tend to operate our brains passively, ignoring most available perceptions....
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The Elysian
How much of the planet should we harm for our comfort? Becky Chambers’ gentle sci-fi on the right amount of carbon, AC, airplanes, and yachts.
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How much of the planet should we harm for our comfort?

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Becky Chambers’ gentle sci-fi on the right amount of carbon, AC, airplanes, and yachts.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Without Any Hope of Fame or Money' Friends and relatives, people whose judgment I actually trust, have urged me to move Anecdotal...
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'Without Any Hope of Fame or Money'

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Friends and relatives, people whose judgment I actually trust, have urged me to move Anecdotal Evidence from Blogger to Substack and I don’t understand why. All I need is a place to write, the “platform” is of no importance. I’d do this in a notebook, like in the old days,...
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The American Scholar
Snake in the Grass The post Snake in the Grass appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Snake in the Grass

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This Space
The way of arrival Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes...
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The way of arrival

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Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis of the careers of various Austrian writers illuminates Sebald's own literary trajectory.1 Peter Brown's Journeys of a Mind: A Life in...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour' I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished...
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'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour'

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I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished basement. I take that image from my childhood home. The walls and floor were bare concrete. Stacks of newspaper and lumber felt flesh-like with dampness. Down there it was always chilly,...
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The American Scholar
“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath appeared first on The American...
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“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath

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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and... I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It...
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Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Us Human

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I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal — a lexicon surely manyfold the poet’s...
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The Elysian
Participatory science makes everyone a researcher So we can study the Earth at scale.
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Participatory science makes everyone a researcher

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So we can study the Earth at scale.
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The American Scholar
Why Go On? The post Why Go On? appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Why Go On?

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The post Why Go On? appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Escaping Flatland
On agency Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and...
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On agency

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Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
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Anecdotal Evidence
"Some of His Work Was Gold' From a dusty, thoroughly disorganized Houston bookstore I bought a copy of Turnstile One: A...
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"Some of His Work Was Gold'

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From a dusty, thoroughly disorganized Houston bookstore I bought a copy of Turnstile One: A Literary Miscellany (Turnstile Press, 1948), edited by V.S. Pritchett. Much of its literary quality shames today's readers and writers. It collects poems, stories, essays and reviews...
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The Marginalian
A Defense of Joy One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with...
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A Defense of Joy

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One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite the abounding sorrow we barely survive but because of it, because joy — like music,...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great Euthanasia' I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once...
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'A Great Euthanasia'

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I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once tried tallying his death-themed poems and lost count. Here’s a sample: “How to Behave When Dead,” “Symbols of Love and Death,” “In Defense of Forest Lawn,” “At the Tomb of the...
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America the Beautiful The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times The post America...
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America the Beautiful

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The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times The post America the Beautiful appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Lord, Make Me Not Too Rich. Nor Make Me Poor' “In spite of the Deconstructionists who say that communication is not really possible, we most of us...
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'Lord, Make Me Not Too Rich. Nor Make Me Poor'

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“In spite of the Deconstructionists who say that communication is not really possible, we most of us manage to honor stop signs, and we all honor the dollar sign, whether or not we are willing to admit it.”  In 1995, R.L. Barth published The Golden Calf: Poems of Money, edited by...
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