Mark Moore
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Mark Moore
Dark nights deepen to foreground the importance of our personal fates and collective destiny.
11.18.2025 [3]
In a technological society I learned that the ancient Greeks considered marble a semi-living thing, an oral tradition as old as the Odyssey.
11.17.2025 [3]
The comfort of unfolding a street map of prophecy as an aspect of everyday life.
11.15.2025 [3]
Urban explorers use the dérive to map the emotive force field of the city, and the way architecture and topography combine to create its 'psychogeographical contours'. Robert Macfarlane, a masterful writer-walker of the countryside, offers this summary of the practice: 'Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map,
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Evoking the fog, man conforms by working like a machine.
11.12.2025 [3]
Invoke the peace in a vast network by not running away.
11.11.2025 [3]
we realize that each time we revisit memories, real or imagined, the distinction between the two becomes less clear; the truth, or “something close to it,” becomes as mutable as our memories. Those memories, ambiguity-prone, recalcitrant, teasingly labile, are the unreliable scaffolding upon which we build our complex and unique story. Our one
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In a responsive dance with change the three-novel reimagining alters what we think of as objective reality.
11.10.2025 [3]
The method of loci is an early recorded instance of such protocolization. Its origins trace back to Hellenic lyric poet Simonides around 500 B.C.E. The tale begins with Simonides reciting an epic poem at a banquet, and upon stepping outside shortly thereafter, the banquet hall collapsed, leaving the crushed guests unrecognizable. Simonides was able
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