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The knights of our romances – extract from Discourse on the Method
I did not cease valuing the exercises which kept people busy in the schools. I knew that the languages one learns there are necessary for an understanding of ancient books, that the gracefulness of fables awakens the intellect, that the memorable actions of history raise the mind, and if one reads with discretion, help to [...]
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A serious science – Ezra Pound on the arts
“The arts, literature, poesy, are a science, just as chemistry is a science. Their subject is man, mankind and the individual.” From ‘The Serious Artist’ by Ezra Pound.
Culture of connectivity
I came across this piece earlier today (via Harper’s Magazine Links, which often has one or two gems of feature writing in every update) and thought it was important to share (ironic, given the subject of the article). It covers topics like friendship, solitude, the private vs. the public – all subjects that have been [...]
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Demanding more to teach us we’re smart again
I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us…that are a lot more [...]
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For Bloomsday ’10, a fragment of a letter
To Harriet Shaw Weaver – 20 July 1919 I have felt during these last days of waiting an added sense of perplexity due to the fact that at the moment when I have the very great pleasure of knowing that it is to you who have aided and are aiding me so munificently you write [...]
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DeLillo on the typewriter
To this day, [DeLillo] writes his books on the same Olympia manual typewriter he has used since 1975. “It’s very scarred,” he says. “It looks like the typewriter equivalent of an old baseball coach who’s been around for 38 years, and he’s bandy-legged and spits lots of tobacco juice.” In a Feb. 5, 1997 letter [...]
A prize-worthy force – Extract from How to Read
It appears to me quite tenable that the function of literature as a generated prize-worthy force is precisely that it does incite humanity to continue living; that it eases the mind of strain, and feeds it, I mean definitely as nutrition of impulse. This idea may worry lovers of order. Just as good literature does [...]
True or false – Extract from The Maker
He had never dwelled on memory’s delights. Impressions slid over him, vivid but ephemeral. A potter’s vermilion; the heavens laden with stars that were also gods; the moon, from which a lion had fallen; the slick feel of marble beneath slow sensitive fingertips; the taste of wild boar meat, eagerly torn by his white teeth; [...]
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Materials of art
Words are perhaps the hardest of all material of art: for they must be used to express both visual beauty and beauty of sound, as well as communicating a grammatical statement. From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot.
Dare to know – Extract from Kant’s What is Enlightenment?