Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
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writing as thinking or writing to understand
Borges names his essays as “inquisitions.” He is less concerned with presenting a belief and more concerned with pondering and conjecture.
for example: in “The Wall and the Books” his writing is essential guessing at the possible reasons the Shih Huang Ti ordered the building of The Great Wall and the burning of all books published before his time.
In their 2021 study, Puzrin and Gaume argued that slab avalanches could provide an answer to the mystery while satisfying most of the oddities surrounding the deaths. Slab avalanches happen when a slab-like layer of snow is positioned on top of a weaker layer, creating dangerously pent-up pressure that can be released by a relatively small trigger.... See more
The Dyatlov Pass Mystery May Have Just Been Solved by New Video Evidence
Why are most religious movies hopelessly hokey?
Is because of aversion to showing strong conflict? A story without compelling conflict is boring or hokey.
Nintil is not written for an audience I carefully cultivate. If you like Nintil you are free enjoy it (no paywalls here) and if you don't you can read something else. Because of that, I don't have a pressure to keep writing blogposts all the time, or feel the urge to squeeze a post out of the random daily occurrence just to be able to push the... See more
nintil.com • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill
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The Complete Stories by Nahum N. Glatzer, Franz Kafka
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