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Does the Artist have to Leave?
"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" - A…
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Favourite Books from a Very Critical Person - part 2
It's so hard to make a list of favourites
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Favourite Books from a Very Critical Person - part 1
It's hard for me to consider a book a favourite. Let's discuss the ones that made the list
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Victorian Literature - Reading Guide #2
How to start reading Victorian Literature: novels, poetry, annotation systems, critical reading syllabus, research material, etc.
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30 books before 30
I'm not turning 30 yet ok this is just a long-term plan calm down.
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“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
a few thoughts on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innoncence
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A Year in Books - 2024
Notes on my favourite books of the year (and a few books I want to read in 2025)
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A Clear Phantasmagoria
On H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)'s poetry
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Às Margens do Liffey
Sobre linguagem, interpretação, e Dubliners de James Joyce
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I am half sick of shadows
something that has been on my mind after rereading Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott".
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Shakespeare's Richards: Interpreting Prophecies, Myths and History
Impressions about Richard II and Richard III
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O Mestre e Margarida: às Portas da Percepção
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things…
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