Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sport Tim Harte: “Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sports,"Nabokov Studies12.1 (2009): 147-166.
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Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sport Tim Harte: “Athletic Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetic Thrill of Sports,"Nabokov Studies12.1 (2009): 147-166.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Opinion | The Shame Culture “Many people carefully guard their words, afraid they might transgress one of the norms that have come into existence. Those accused of incorrect thought face ruinous consequences. When a moral crusade spreads across campus, many students feel compelled to post in support of it on Facebook within minutes. If they…
Parapraxes (Freudian Slips) – Dead Media Archive because I need to understand why I’m always accidentally saying ‘oral sex form’ when I really mean ‘tax form’
BEIJING — China’s most famous political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, received a quiet cremation under official watch early on Saturday, when the government allowed only his widow and a few other mourners to bid farewell to the man who was also the country’s only Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Later in the day, Mr. Liu’s ashes were…
Messing with Maps: Walking David Foster Wallace’s Boston – Los Angeles Review of Books Halfway through my summer reading of Infinite Jest (which is exactly where I left off last summer)