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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his
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Absalom, Absalom! Chapters 5 - 7
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Absalom, Absalom! Chapters 3 and 4
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A poem for Chris
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Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 2
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I’m re-reading what I can now say with confidence is my favorite book, Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. It’s a consuming little undertaking, however enjoyable, so I thought I’d share it by maintaining a sort of glossary of words, phrases, and references I look up as
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Best thing I read this week: Late entry, but more easily accessible than Tony Iantosca’s Crisis Inquiry (which I very much enjoyed) is Sam Anderson’s NYT Magazine piece on a visit to Ghibli Park. Anderson evaluates the work of Hayao Miyazaki through a perspective as demanding as one
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Tech week Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWe believe that it would hurt our ability to remember. "Don't forget about me," it always seems to be saying. A detective in the weeds, or stood at the sink, snaking the drain to
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Best thing I read this week: Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report that US Navy divers blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre and cover-up, Abu Ghraib, and a bunch of stuff in between. It’s a gripping, necessarily lengthy report, full
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I have way too many books on my shelf. About a week ago, already neck deep in Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs and a re-read of Eric Foner’s short history of Reconstruction,1 I decided to buy a handful of books by John Ashbery, moved to action by
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When you consider something historically, it’s important to avoid the tempting “What if…” construct of inevitability. “Could _____ have been avoided?” Is a question, sure, and something you can think about, it’s just not a legitimate historical inquiry. Everything is inevitable because it happened. When 24 year-old Buffalo
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Conversation Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe present is a world because the public arrives at a natural corner, new styles in stone on the beach. This is a utopia. It’s just haunted. Wake up. Or has my clothing lost you to your manuals?