A Life of Reading
Gabriela de Mendonça GomesHi, I'm Gabriela. I write and record essays about literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas, a.k.a. the records of the enduring human effort to understand reality through words.
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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...
Why Classic Literature Feels More Erotic Than Pornography
I. Fewer Books = Less Sex?
Here is a troubling set of facts about contemporary life:
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People are reading fewer books than ever
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The books that people are reading are primarily ‘romansty,’ aka smut, aka not literature
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People...
“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...
The Life of Reading Library 📚
Hello, and welcome to The Library. Here you will find the titles I mention in each of my YouTube videos, organized by topic, with Bookshop.org, Better World Books, and/or Amazon links where to purchase them. Some are affiliate links, which...
The Paralysis of Postmodernism
by Campbell Berry (ig: @chasingelephant)
I. What the Hell Even is Postmodernism?
Postmodernism is both important and destructive. On one hand, its theories about the instability of language, its suspicions about the totalizing narratives...
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Hi, I'm Gabriela. I write and record essays about literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas, a.k.a. the records of the enduring human effort to understand reality through words. Reading: The Decameron & Ulysses
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