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A prize-worthy force – Extract from How to Read

By TF | Published: May 7, 2010
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 often [...]
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Public Library 22.4

By TF | Published: April 22, 2010
Final Destination. If manuscripts had an afterlife, this would be the preferred to place to go. D.T. Max on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the literary archive of the University of Texas at Austin. Via The New Yorker. Hedonic Indicators. Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister believed the country’s GNH (gross national happiness) needed to be [...]
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As easy on the eyes as paper – On books and e-readers

By TF | Published: January 14, 2010
E-readers are the way of the reading future, seemingly whether we like it or not. But are digital books an attempt to fix a reading experience that isn’t broken? I once worked in an art museum where my primary role was to stop people from touching the works. Of course, it didn’t say it like that [...]
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The happiness we may never find in living

By TF | Published: August 3, 2009
10. The meaning of life is intimitely linked with happiness, as are all great novels. As in novels, there is in life a genuine wish, an impulse, a race toward happiness. But there is more to it than that. A person wishes to reflect on that desire, that impulse, and a good novel (like The [...]
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