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W. W. Norton: Do the Classics Have a Future? →

wwnorton: …take, for example, the common statement “The ancient Athenians invented democracy.” Put like that, it is simply not true. As far as we know, no ancient Greek ever said so; and anyway democracy isn’t something that is “invented” like a piston engine. Our word “democracy” derives from the Greek, that is correct. Beyond that, the fact is that we have chosen to invest the fifth-century...

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Keira Knightley's Vagina

thenewinquiry: A Dangerous Method taps the allure of sexual dysfunction by Kartina Richardson David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method opens with the ominous notes of a cello, that, leading out of the opening credits, give way to a horn and string crescendo and the disturbing first scene: Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) arrives screaming, restrained by men, in a black carriage...

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“I Today I dissected a squid, the late acacia tossing its pollen across the...”

– “Love at Thirty-Two Degrees” by Katherine Larson (via clavicola) this…is beautiful. I am convinced that poetry is a dialect of its own, with entirely different words that constitute it’s language. That it can weave and intermingle with biology and then utterly contradict it with heart logic only...

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