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Mar 21
Partly Suggested
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki,
In Praise of Shadows (trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker)
Lacquerware decorated in gold is not something to be seen in a brilliant light, to be taken in at a ...
Mar 3
Another More Mysterious Dimension
Simone Weil,
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd)
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an ho...
Feb 16
The Song That Waits
Rabindranath Tagore,
Gitanjali
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
Feb 1
Remaining in Uncertainties
John Keats,
Letter to George and Tom Keats
I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in...
Jan 17
The Irritable Reaching
John Keats,
Letter to George and Tom Keats (December 21, 1817)
I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, upon various subjects; several things dove-tailed...