imitation

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• Apr 13 The Pleasure of the Likeness Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter 4 (trans. S.H. Butcher) Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes, each of them lying deep in our nature. First...
• Mar 27 The Poorest of All Imitations Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, Discourse VI The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one...
• Mar 12 What Creation Does to the Past Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka and His Precursors (Other Inquisitions, trans. James E. Irby) If I am not mistaken, the heterogeneous pieces I have enumerated resemble Kafka; if I am not mistake...
• Feb 25 What We Bring to the Shuffle Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have ...
• Feb 9 Your Plot of Ground Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
• Jan 23 Property of Breath Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 84 We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are sui...