the Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman wrote in his lovely prose poem about evolution.
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In Praise of Darkness: Henry Beston on How the Beauty of Night Nourishes the Human Spirit
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” wrote the Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki in his glorious 1933 love letter to darkness, enveloped in a lament about the perils of excessive illumination.
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Against the Gods: Iris Murdoch on Truth, the Meaning of Goodness, and How Attention Unmasks the Universe
When Nietzsche weighed our human notion of truth, he regarded it as “a movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished.
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Orwell’s Roses
is a sweeping, delicately interleaved, uncondensable read in its entirety.
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Front Porch Reflections 