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

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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

Thursday, July 17, 2008

“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

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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 the only burden; old age in itself is not, for if old age degrades us [...]

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