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In a recent Writer’s Diary, Matthew Gasda writes: Modernity convinces us that there’s a means to control everything in our lives; that there are…
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The Technological Society, Ellul’s major book, is tedious, but its vision is not without power. Of particular force in it is his resolute emphasis on…
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Style, which often portrays itself as the most sophisticated level of literary production is in fact the most instinctual, the most connected with…
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In soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas
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A vindication of writing that shears it of its idealisms
On Louise Glück’s Marigold and Rose
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Strange light. Hot, but no haze. You could see for blocks and blocks. No haze, but clouds. It was bright, but also dark, like before a storm. Everything…
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Whitman’s line, that he “receiv’d identity by my body,” seems to me very true. What else can explain our sharpening sense of our son, of his personality…
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Haze looking down toward Keele and Bloor from the little hillock of the park—a brown haze. Melancholy intersection, late at night, swaddled in fuzz…
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