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Sunday, July 09, 2023

Literary geography

"Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world." ~ Peter Wessel Zapffe


John Gay composed his own epitaph: “Life is a jest; and all things show it, / I thought so once; but now I know it.” He was born on this date, June 30, in 1685 and died in 1732 at age forty-seven.

Turning Everything to Wit or Humour '

T’s mates after he read selected letters from the Private Spy  or extract from the Cold War River …

Consider every drop — manifestos for saving rivers, lakes and oceans


Departmental politics

Paleotempestology

Dishonesty expert

Bookforum reborn

Panda Express postdoc

The Conspiracist Manifesto
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