influence

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• 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 19 What Will Suffice Wallace Stevens, Parts of a World The poem of the mind in the act of finding
• Feb 2 What We Owe the Dead T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is...
• Jan 29 Thinking in Common Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking ...
• Jan 18 The Labour of Tradition T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate...