Category: Lit
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“How To Do Things With Fictions” by Joshua Landy
We should all just come out and admit it: ‘morally improving’ (literature) is merely a compliment we pay to works whose values agree with ours….Fictions preach only to the converted Joshua Landy, How To Do Things With Fictions
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Gotthold Lessing
Only that which gives free rein to the imagination is effective. The more we see, the more we must be able to imagine. And the more we add in our imaginations, the more we must think we see Gotthold Lessing as quoted in Intimate, by Paisley Rekdal
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Perec, “Life: A User’s Manual”
Gaspard Winckler is dead, but the long and meticulous, patiently laid plot of his revenge is not finished yet. “Life: a User’s Manual” by Georges Perec
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3.4 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
This is glib, but I’ll say it anyway: I’m struck by how similar Marcus Aurelius‘s “Meditations” (B. 121 BCE) is The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris (B. 1977). 4. Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people — unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing…
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Intimate by Paisley Rekdal
“To insist on authentic identity the way that Curis has is a form of violence”