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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? – T. S. Eliot
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
You’ve already been there Lucretius, the Roman poet who brought Epicurus’s ideas to his later audience, articulates this argument.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Prose
Aleynah • 1 card
He’d lost perhaps half an inch in height, and gained perhaps an inch in breadth; but generally speaking the years had glanced off him without damage, and he was as unaltered as Bethesda’s pews.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Now moons decline and rise, Dead metaphors that looked alive. And you about to die Out past the water-clock of tides Naming and renaming your desires. You rode in wind And scarred the cheek Like the edge of an autumn leaf. I put you in your hollow ship With wine and bread to drift The wine-dark sea. You put me In my hollow ship. A memorized part of
... See moreRay Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
“memory and desire, stirring“ hit the sentiments of the presence.
at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight.
The Wright Angles • Complete Works of William Shakespeare: 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets
It’s well known there’s always two sides, if no more; else who’d go to law, I should like to know?
George Eliot • Middlemarch
Maybe Godot shows up in act three, my son; maybe the audience is just leaving too early. ESTRAGON: Where’d they all go? VLADIMIR: They were just here.