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Philosophy, Literature, and the Loaded Gun

by David Wojnarowicz

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury writes, “Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”

Well, the final passage of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Scottish empiricist David Hume makes his targets...

8 days ago
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Silence on Sand

Taken by me in Panama

“This earth eats men and women and yet we are sent to eat the world, this place that tries to fill us with tomorrow” - Rumi

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Picture a beach. Millions(billions?endless?) hot grains of sand building a soft yet coars...

23 days ago
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On Idleness

Taken by me in Foz do Iguaçu

On a Thursday in April, in the fraught middle of ubiquitous quotidian frenzy and banality, I went outside for sunset with the Lyrical Ballads in-hand. I had read “Goody Blake and Harry Gill” the day before, so...

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Why Classic Literature Feels More Erotic Than Pornography

I. Fewer Books = Less Sex?

Here is a troubling set of facts about contemporary life:

  1. People are reading fewer books than ever

  2. The books that people are reading are primarily ‘romansty,’ aka smut, aka not literature

  3. People...

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“What language do you dream in?”

Dreaming, like counting and cursing, seems to be a measure by which we’ve decided to measure what our true, or most fundamental, language is.

Cursing is automatic, an expression of force rather than of meaning. What sounds come most quick...

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