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I tried to write a Senior Thesis that showed how considering every word literally opens inevitably into the strange open spaces of poetry; that the literal is not so much a fixed basic level of interpretation as a deceptive ground that continues to give way when tested, to give back when probed, giving way to a chaste listening, giving back the ( Read more... )

Ever the loyal protege, Medvedev has pledged to "supplement and develop" Putin's programs. But Russia's new president has shown some signs of trying to move out of his mentor's shadow.

The 42-year-old - the youngest Russian leader in nearly a century - has repeatedly promised to strengthen the rule of law, tame Russia's ferocious bureaucrats and ( Read more... )

"Story always tells us more than mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it."

Story , , , I like how she says it that way. "Story",  like a quality, half like a name, the faintest echo of a deity.

Doesn't this make you want to reread the Asher Lev books?

The literary imagination of most Western critics has always been indisputably Greek, whereas a good part of the Western artists’ imagination is Hebraic.

-- Louise Cowan, from "Jerusalem's Claim on Us"

. . . especially the ones that say Arbery/Arbery next to them. Oh yeah!

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Hegel,Nietzsche,Dostoevsky: Wood/Cowan

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The Renaissance World: Arbery/Arbery

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Plato and Poetry: Arbery/Arbery

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Thomas More: Wegemer, Gerard B

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Greek: Adv Grammar & Comp: Maurer, Karl

This delights and instructs, and is moreover good! I've had the feeling that this is important for while, but finally have read it and selected some notable passages for you, my friends. More translated/wrote this life of Pico della Mirandola, one of his earliest works, while discerning his vocation, studying and praying in a small cell within the ( Read more... )

After two days of feasting, fast.
After days of sleeping, stay awake
one night. After these times of bitter
storytelling, joking, and serious
considerations, we should give ourselves
two days between layers of baklava
in the quiet seclusion where soul sweetens
and thrives more than with language.