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“Pure mathematics enters into and gives form to the physical sciences, and I have a notion that myths and images of literature also enter into and give form to all the structures we build out of world”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“The story of loss and regaining of identity is the framework, I think, of all literature”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
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“If Shakespeare were alive now, no doubt he'd be interviewed every week and his opinions canvassed on every subject from national foreign policy to the social effects of punk rock. But in his day nobody cared what Shakespeare's views were about anything, and he wouldn't have been allowed to discuss public affairs publicly. He wasn't, therefore, under a constant pressure to become opinionated.”
― Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
― Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
“With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.”
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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