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Popova on Woolf
I’m still absorbing yesterday’s Terrible Poem Breakdown and its use of the Druid. I still kind of like the poem! Undeniably terrible, but even so. Terrible poems with druids are not all bad. (Please don’t try to prove me wrong, poets!) Running through some research on the druids, I came across Maria Popova’s look at Continue reading
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Popova on Lightman
Just when I get beyond my fear of falling into a black hole, along comes Maria Popova to throw me back into a cosmic tailspin. In the title essay of his excellent The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew, which also gave us this beautiful meditation on science and spirituality, Alan Lightman points Continue reading
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Popova on Schopenhauer
The great Maria Popova takes a look at our favorite dismal crank Schopenhauer. (If you haven’t read Schopenhauer, start reading! Unless you’re one of those people who view cloudy days as a personal offense against your nature.) Popova’s article looks at Schopenhauer through a particular lens, asking whether he “presaged” today’s Internet writing on headline-and-slideshow Continue reading
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