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Emily Dickinson’s secret lover. – By Christopher Benfey – Slate Magazine

If there’s a surprise in all this, it’s an ordinary on

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Lives and Letters: The Lion and the Mouse: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

“Stuart Little isn’t Gregor Samsa. He’s Don Quixote, turning into Holden Caulfield.”

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The New Atlantis » The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences

We need a form of happiness that can go with us through all life’s stages: life is so short that we ought to reject any felicity that does not last as long as we do. An idle old age is … Continue reading

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