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Apr 11
What the Notebooks Knew
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human, section 155 (trans. Helen Zimmern)
Belief in Inspiration. — Artists have an interest in others' believing in sudden suggestions, so-cal...
Feb 23
The Key at the Bottom
David Hume,
Of the Standard of Taste
It is with good reason, says Sancho to the squire with the great nose, that I pretend to have a judg...
Feb 8
The Thing Not Named
Willa Cather,
The Novel Démeublé
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, it seems to me, is creat...
Jan 22
What Isn't There
Lao Tzu,
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11
Thirty spokes unite in one hub;