Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
In 1869, in Boston, on the 100th anniversary of Humboldt’s birth, Agassiz, by then America’s most renowned naturalist, would recount in a long speech the incredible life of his mentor, the monumental productivity right up until the end, the trip to the Urals in 1829, the historic series of lectures in Berlin, the friendship with Goethe, the new car
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
If you want to look anywhere for the moment when the Romantic idea of genius—the tubercular poet communing with nature—yielded to the modern one—of a workaholic tech bro harnessing the white heat of technological innovation - look to this New Jersey hamlet in the late 1870s.
Helen Lewis • The Genius Myth
Il est possible que, au fil des générations, la Liberté américaine soit devenue une fiction du passé – comme elle est, dans une certaine mesure, une fiction du présent –, les poètes du monde seront inspirés par la mythologie américaine.