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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 19
What Will Suffice
Wallace Stevens,
Parts of a World
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
Feb 2
What We Owe the Dead
T.S. Eliot,
Tradition and the Individual Talent
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is...
Jan 29
Thinking in Common
Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One's Own
For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking ...
Jan 18
The Labour of Tradition
T. S. Eliot,
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate...