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| | | | | Top Ten Tuesday was created byThe Broke and the Bookishin June of 2010 and was moved toThat Artsy Reader Girlin January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Previous Top Ten Tuesday Topics December 28: Best Books I Read In... | |
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| | | | | There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe's contention that "the death... of a beautiful woman" is "unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." (Hisperhaps ironic observation prompted Sylvia Plath to write, over a hundred years later, "The woman is perfected / Her dead / Body wears the smile of accomplishment.")The sentence comes from Poe's 1846 essay "The Philosophy of Composition," and if this work were only known for its literary fetishization of what Elisabeth Bronfen calls "an aesthetically pleasing corpse'-marking deep anxieties about both "female sexuality and decay"-then it would indeed still be of interest to feminists and academics, though not perhaps to the average reader. Open Cult... | |
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| | | | | Meta: While I originally set out to write this essay about why I no longer "endorse" Stoicism as an operating framework, re-reading a bunch of Stoic stuff led me to realize that I still agree with ~90% of Stoic principles. Peter Thiel recently talked about (in German) why he's not a Stoic, Stoics, for example, are obsessed with death. However, I am the opposite of a stoic, I loathe the peace and have no sense in the countryside to live and meditate on the environment. | |
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www.weliveandbreathebooks.com
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| | | Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is... (Don't) Believe the Hype! | ||
