The Humanities Library
Dusting off old books in search of new ideas to live by
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A Scrapbook about Fairy Tales
I'm playing around with a new format, this week, for these scrapbooks, part of my continued process of figuring out how I want to share the little rabbit holes I find myself down. Let me know what you think.
1 - Here's the thing tha...
Simone Weil on The Need for Roots
Source: Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, 1949
“A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape certain particular treasures of the past and certain...
The Scrapbook — No. 41
A few more fragments of beauty or interest.
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“The heaven of modern humanity is indeed shattered in the Cyclopean struggle for wealth and power. The world is groping in the shadow of egotism and vulgarity. Knowledge is bought...
Ursula Le Guin on Spears, Sacks and the Shape of Stories
Source: The Carrier-Bag Theory of Fiction, 1986
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag […] and then take it home with you, […] then I am a human being after all. Fully...
The Scrapbook — No. 40
A few more fragments of beauty or interest
1 - This week, for the main article, we were looking at Donald Winnicott’s famous concept of the “good enough mother,” and noted how the concept, properly understood, positions our failure...
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