Anna B
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Anna B
Almost all English translations of Rumi are not Rumi, especially those by Coleman Barks
“Anyone who tells you there are universal rules to how to add an apostrophe ending in S is either wrong or lying,” Jeffrey Barg, a grammar columnist, said. “You can’t be wrong as long as you’re consistent.”
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of
... See moreWhat happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
She has been thinking about Hamlet , and the way rashness, “one of the properties of illness,” allows at last a proper, because “outlaw,” reading of the play’s illogic and excess
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Have I allowed myself to be so lulled, so infantilised by the ever-present, always anticipated service of this luxury resort that I have surrendered my free will, my judgement?
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Four years after it first appeared, Woolf reprinted “On Being Ill”
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention