The Humanities Library
Dusting off old books in search of new ideas to live by
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The Scrapbook — No. 27
Following a thread taking us from French obsession with wine to gothic architecture, via a medieval execution method. You might know as many as eight new things in a few minutes time. Is this what we call flourishing? I suspect probably not...
The Odyssey, Genesis and a History of Storytelling Built Around a Footbath
Erich Auerbach on the two great traditions of epic storytelling
Source: Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Chapter 1, "Odysseus' Scar." 1946
The Scrapbook — No. 26
Inspired by the heatwave, a very brief social history of sun-tanning.
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“Look: the sun has spread its wings over the earth to dispel the darkness.
Like a great tree, with its roots in heaven, and its branches reaching dow...
The Best Defence of the Humanities I've Ever Heard
Source: E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, The Greatest Resource — Education
“Nothing has any meaning to him; nothing can hold his vital interest; he has no means of making anything intelligible to himsel...
The Scrapbook — No. 25
Tracey Emin, on learning of her friend’s death this week, described the late David Hockney as “a great artist and a wonderful man, who with the power of art changed the perception of Britishness. A proud chain-smoking homosexual, who flew t...
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