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Death of the Natural World: (Centaur and Wild Woman Slaughtered by Civilized Man) by Israël van Menechem.  From the Heures de Charles d’Angoulême (Book of Hours of C d’A).

Cigarettes and Coffee

Yes, could I quit just one considering I seem to have wired both together in my brain? Not because of the PTA movie by that name surely, but probably because we once indulged in these vices simultaneously…As a kid, coffee just meant my grandma’s percolated brew, a dark scalding hot liquid she’d consume in her…

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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…

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Epicurus on Death

Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away…

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