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Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world!
Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out! Mikhail Bulgakov “Only when you grow old do you see the rarity of beauty, and what a wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Bad Bunny, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Mikhail Bulgakov
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As easy as PIE ( Proto-Indo-European )
Many millennia ago, a nomadic groups of humans began to spread across extensive areas of Eurasia, bringing their language with them. About 8,000 years ago, from a homeland likely located on the Pontic–Caspian steppe north of the Black and Caspian … Continue reading
Dial-A-Poem is back just when we need it
Dial-A-Poem is back! SPIN Magazine explains that Dial-A-Poem was created in 1969 by New York City “multimedia performance poet” John Giorno as way to give people access to the poems of a “free zone of radical poets and socio-political activists,” … Continue reading
Resurrecting Merlin
This image, made with Multispectral Imaging and processed using the Minimal Noise Fraction method, brings out annotations on the left-hand side which were invisible to the naked eye, including the stamp ‘Huntingfield’ believed to have been added in the 16th … Continue reading
I’ll Take Manhattan
This month marks the 373rd anniversary of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam’s (AKA New York City) incorporation as a city. This process provided municipal rights as a city, and some degree of independence from the broader Netherland’s colonial authority. … Continue reading
A very chill idea
“Did you know there are Little Free Library book-sharing boxes on all seven continents?” Little Free Library posted on Facebook, highlighting a very cool LFL that has recently been set up at the South Pole by Dr. Russell Schnell, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Little Free Library, NOAA, South Pole
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“Evil, that is, has every advantage but one – it is inferior in imagination.”
The poet W.H. Auden wrote in a New York Times review of the final book in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, “Evil, that is, has every advantage but one – it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility … Continue reading
Snow Joke
Depending on one’s point of view, we have either been cursed or blessed with an abundance of snow this season. Which ever side prevails here in the former U.S. of A., our vocabulary for snow is basic. But the Swedes … Continue reading
Vonnegut’s lament
“In case you haven’t noticed,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were. With good reason.” He lamented the undemocratic nature of the 2000 presidential election, warmongering politicians and a … Continue reading
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