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ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
However, an imagined order cannot be sustained by violence alone. It requires some true believers as well.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Above all, it is urgent that people of all ages and across all sectors better understand content—what it is, how it is produced, by whom, and for what ends.
Kate Eichhorn • Content (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
The netsuke, he writes, is ‘a small, tough explosion of exactitude’ that ‘displaces a small part of the world around it’.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
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When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
Christian Lorentzenvulture.com
Though the materialists’ pessimism persisted, their approach did not. Materialists dominated the critical race movement from the 1970s to the 1980s; but, from the 1990s, postmodernists were increasingly in the ascendant.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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