e.e. cummings, opening and closing
"somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near...
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"Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange...
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The Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and Joyce's Ulysses
File this one under "How did I not know this was within striking distance of my home?" I stand in amazement at the number of small, medium, and large museums and archives that dot the East Coast of...
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Siddhartha and mobile networks: headless flow
I will start by admitting openly that all of this is a bit of a stretch, but I have read a lot of literature over the years and by jove I want to use it somehow! So, in this post I clumsily draw...
View ArticleGilgamesh and the concerns of humanity, alone
I was reading a bit of the old Sumerian poem the Epic of Gilgamesh and was struck by the following passage. Being one of the earliest pieces of written literature, dating from around 2000 B.C., it is...
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