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Cecília Meireles, from a poem titled "Silk and Ashes," featured in Antologia poética

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"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

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Geoffrey Preston Sculpture

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French School, 19th Century (Following to François Boucher, 1703-1770)

The bath of Venus, n/d, oil on copper, 19x13.5 cm

Private Collection (Drouot)

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Sevilla, 21 de febrero de 2024

Antonio Íñigo,

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Rozen

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Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851 by Alfred Gauvain, Arms and Armor

Medium: Steel, wood (ebony), gold

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26981

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Austrian National Library, Vienna

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Night drive home from the theatre, discussing classical music and falling deeply in love

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Roman silver bowl with figure of Athena/Minerva, uncovered near Hildesheim, Germany in 1868, dates to the 1st century AD

from The State Museums of Berlin

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These 39 books have been sitting in piles waiting to be shelved for YEARS. How many have you read? (New post at mlbooks IG.)

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“Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.”

— Carrie Coon

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— October 30, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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in my richard papen era (failing academics, falling out with friends, living for the pretentious aesthetics of it all)

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I am not a tomboy, I am not a girly girl...I am the ridiculous 40 year old in a Dostoevsky novel who feigns affront at the slightest and catches fever at the drop of a hat

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“The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground