Anna B
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Anna B
What 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
It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
On the one hand: “Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
I lend you a copy of the novel I loved, you read it, and now its beauty resides in both of our hearts
Nick Riggle • Beauty Is Not an Ornament to the Good Life, It Is at Its Heart
Woolf herself was ambivalent about “On Being Ill,” and about its opening sentence.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Plato’s truth is identical not only with the beautiful, but with the good and the just.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.
Rebecca Solnit • Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens
The questions of apostrophe placement regarding Harris and Walz are far from the most debated use of the punctuation mark, Mr. McCalden said. (That would be using orange’s instead of oranges.) But the discourse comes at a pivotal time for apostrophes: Thursday, Aug. 15, is International Apostrophe Day.
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
With the final how we may reasonably expect that the grammatical, argumentative, and symbolic denouement is just around the comma-swiveling corner