October 2011
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Does a man really have to make a virtue out of the misery of his condition,...
– Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism
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The Naked Book: Why Read Moby Dick? →
movabletypenyc:
Over lunch a couple of weeks back, one of Viking’s smartest young editors handed me a copy of Nathaniel Philbrick’s forthcoming contemplation of the urgent virtues of America’s greatest novel, Moby Dick. Why Read Moby Dick is a handsome little book, as you can see: cloth-bound, sturdy in…
Hopefully it just reiterates that it is America’s greatest novel on the first...
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Postmodernism: modernism with a deep sense of guilt.
– Charles Bernstein
Go to houseparty where owner has cat
Disregard houseparty, acquire feline bonding.
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