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… themselves to go from that “different stage” of an almost medieval society to a modern state with a developed economy … found difficult to express. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) he idealized homsexuality as the biblical love of David … voice, the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless …
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… consciousness, regarded the whole matter with a certain complacency. Let the objects of science become familiar … have poetry of the complete sensibility one must have an audience whose sensibility is unimpaired. On the assumption … the Spirit of Secular Science, who would like to set up falsely as the God, the Ruler of the Universe.” He would give …
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… of the large animals were transported to larger zoos, or died. There are now mostly small animals in the Jardin des … strange and surprising ways, traveling back in history to become a meditation on time. He remembers going to the zoo as … human visitors, videos which then live stream on the zoo’s website in order to bring in visitors, if only virtually. It …
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… of Los Angeles It is useful to start at the end, which is also the beginning: at the far side of an imaginary bridge, … at the 101 freeway’s eight lanes. Mountain lions have died here before, crossing from one sliver of wilderness to … to take down livestock or approach humans. Mountain lions communicate through code: scrapes or scratches on tree bark, …
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… claim to understand or even fully appreciate such a richly complex man and artist? That was my problem then, and it is … office where scholarly off-prints from PMLA or Studies in Bibliography were usually displayed. A rather … manner or told in precisely the same way or from the same points of view. Each is a new artistic adventure, making new …
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… end of an emergence, every generation of periodical cicadas dies off, the cadavers accumulating in great heaps around … teleological tension,” Han writes, “it disintegrates into points which whizz around without any sense of direction.” … produced 1,782 pounds, 803 kilograms, of honey between 1269 and 1270, and that collectively bees would have to fly …