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@metalgearobama Here's the article fwiw https://t.co/LfeVLb3soH Absolutely... See more

My advice to young humanities students: 1. Don’t be afraid to skip around the chapters in an academic history book non-linearly. As long as it’s not narrative, it’s fine as long as you read everything 2. Don’t be afraid to use Wikipedia. Its footnotes and sources are a goldmine

There’s an Ursula K. Le Guin essay that’s actually really cracked the whole thing of the shadow and the collective self open for me in a way I’ve found really interesting/genuinely useful, I’ll link it

Borges at eighty: “I think that one should never use words like ‘the best’ or ‘the first,’ since those words carry no conviction and only lead to arguments. Beauty is not something rare. […] For example, I know nothing whatever about Hungarian poetry, and yet I am sure that [+]

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)