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The Tyranny of Beauty
Interviewer: I’ve read that you’ve gone as far as to say that the “tyranny of beauty” in our culture has taken a tremendous psychological toll, and it has the tendency to bring out the worst in us....
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How and Why Printed Books Will Survive
“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books… I have no Luddite prejudice against new technology; it’s just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they...
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“On a Return from Egypt” by Keith Douglas
To stand here in the wings of Europe disheartened, I have come away from the sick land where in the sun lay the gentle sloe-eyed murderers of themselves, exquisites under a curse; here to exercise my...
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“Innocence” by Patrick Kavanaugh
They laughed at one I loved — The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That I was bounded by the whitethorn hedges Of the little farm and did not know the world. But I knew that...
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“To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” by William Butler Yeats
Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his...
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