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The End [by Lera Auerbach]
The Tree – Acrylic on Canvas by Lera Auerbach THE END (1) It is hard to know how to start a book. Its ending is an even greater mystery. How do you know…
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Part One) [by David Lehman]
The story of King Arthur is Britain's foundation myth in the same way that the story of wandering Aeneas accounts for Rome's origins in The Aeneid. The real King Arthur was probably a…
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A Dream of Cotton Mather [by Mitch Sisskind]
Flat on my back on the rusted chassis Of an old car from which the driver's seat Has been removed my foot is still able To reach the gas pedal and I know…
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“The Professionals” [by Laura Cronk]
Who decorates movie sets, sitcom stages,the kitchens used to advertise paper towels?Who decorates doctor’s offices, the suiteof offices of a university president, ofa Wall Street accounting firm? Who chosethe paint color for the…
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Emerson on Compensation
<<< And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends,…
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“Cats” [by James Cummins]
When Eliot wrote his thesis at Harvard,He said philosophers doing philosophy was “ridiculous”—That two thousand years of this insanity had gone onBecause they tried to explain existenceFrom the point-of-view of a platform outside it,Which…
