The concept of period style comes from art history and material culture studies, where it is used to refer to a set of formal conventions that are broadly shared at a given historical moment and that express a more or less coherent set of
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“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― The Mismeasure of Man
― The Mismeasure of Man
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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