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Brief Musings

R. Russell Magee

A place for all things literature, art, film, and other various musing-worthy materials.

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The Ninety-third

“What is the World Cup really? One big theater of dreams, and it’s these moments, prior to the first kick-off, which loom largest. When all the supporters’ dreams are still alive and intact.” – Fredrik Ekelund in a letter to Karl Ove Knausg...

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Élan, boys. Élan

US Army gun crew during the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne (1918)

“Élan, boys. Élan,” says Major General Lyon Reis to the five soldiers before sending them off to find and execute their wounded comrade, whose screams of pain fill the air fro...

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The Ninety-second

“and so the strange band footslogs, drained and starved, across a pitted, plundered country, one man, one beast, one boy, one centaur, and one angel, pitchforking corpses, chewing up the world, drinking only from puddles with frogs, actual...

20 days ago
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Looking East

It’s been over a month since my trip across the Pacific. On Monday, May the 4th, my mom, sister, and I flew to Seoul, South Korea to visit my brother who’s been living there the past year. He’s in the Air Force and got time off from the bas...

a month ago

The Ninety-first

“And so, after gently showing us out, it was simply from breeding and jollity that in a stentorian voice, as if addressing someone off-stage, he shouted from the gate to Swann, who was already in the courtyard: ‘You, now, don’t let yourself...

a month ago

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  • R. Russell Magee

    Russell is a reader, writer, and researcher currently living in Philadelphia, PA. A passionate bibliophile, podcast listener, and museum wanderer, he is the creator of 'Brief Musings,' a newsletter dedicated to literature, art, and culture.

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