Anna B
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Anna B
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
The Eightfold Path, however, is holistic. Each branch is intrinsically linked, and intended to be followed concurrently. Without understanding the seven other forms of guidance, let alone practising them, mindfulness becomes stripped of its essential meaning
Chris Wheatley • When Mindfulness Meets Capitalism, It Loses Its Way
The excess clauses are sometimes replanted or grafted nearby, not disposed of entirely.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
So what would a prose literature devoted to illness sound like? Perhaps it could only exist in the form of the essay, of which genre Woolf’s opening sentence is both an elegant part-for-whole and a less than obvious parody.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
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.
Ruthie Foster - Maya Angelou/ Phenomenal Woman(live @TivoliVredenburg Utrecht)
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I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
Maggie Nelson • The Red Parts
ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.