Anna B
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Anna B
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of
... See moreLiterary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
insignificant. I knew, in that moment, and perhaps for the first time, that I would one day die, that at some point there would be nothing left of me, my mittens, my breathing, my curls, my hat. I felt that conviction for the first time. My death felt like a person standing there next to me.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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
Almost all English translations of Rumi are not Rumi, especially those by Coleman Barks
The Associated Press Stylebook, widely considered to be the gold standard among news organizations, is clear on its rule for the possessive of singular proper names ending in S — only an apostrophe is needed (Harris’), though there are always exceptions. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting... See more
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness and Disability
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