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• Feb 13 The Free Channel Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without inc...
• 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...
• Feb 4 A Single Taste Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
• Jan 20 The Demon and the Windowpane George Orwell, Why I Write Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your o...