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The smaller the country the larger the stamps. He who lives alone is always on sentry duty. When our friends leave us, they take away our shores. One of Hamilton Finlay’s last exhibitions, in Edinburgh in 2005, was simply titled ‘Sentences’. All the exhibits were monostichs, one-sentence poems, painted in different colours on the white walls, like
... See moreJoe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
dilettantism.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention—that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, w
... See moreJon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
Against this blood-soaked background, Thaddeus Dod attempted to civilize the community at Ten Mile.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
the Hart Crane we’d been reading in English. Brooklyn Bridge.