Monthly Archives: August 2010
Assessing Solitude
“The End of Solitude,” an early 2009 essay by William Deresiewicz, thoughtfully surveys changing perspectives on solitude by teasing out its relationship to changing social and aesthetic trends. Deresiewicz examines early to modern European culture as well as life and … Continue reading
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Desperate Measures
Robert Frost’s poem Death of the Hired Man presents a sentimental, capitalist view of human worth. Its subject is a dying laborer who appears in his final hours at the farm of his former employers, a husband and wife, through … Continue reading
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Storytelling
Consider the idea that wine signifies sacredness, or theories about correspondences between external characteristics and intangible qualities, or the story of the hero’s miraculous birth. How marvelous that such ideas, theories, and stories travel to us through eons! Each one’s … Continue reading
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