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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The two great dramatic poets of modern times have each taken man’s honor as the theme of two plays; Shakespeare in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, and Calderon in El medico de su honra, (The Physician of his Honor), and A secreto agravio secreta venganza, (for Secret Insult Secret Vengeance).
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Wisdom of Life
no one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Have you read Frazer’s The Golden Bough?”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
The Death of the Author - Roland Barthes
writing.upenn.eduI sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.