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Canon
Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.
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― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more.
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From...Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Tho…more
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Who makes it onto the Canon of Great Literature?
The “most important, influential, definitive”?…more
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