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Mar 12
What Creation Does to the Past
Jorge Luis Borges,
Kafka and His Precursors (Other Inquisitions, trans. James E. Irby)
If I am not mistaken, the heterogeneous pieces I have enumerated resemble Kafka; if I am not mistake...
Feb 25
What We Bring to the Shuffle
Italo Calvino,
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have ...
Feb 9
Your Plot of Ground
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Self-Reliance
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
Jan 23
Property of Breath
Seneca,
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 84
We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are sui...