Category: Philosophy
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The Things We Keep Alive
“It’s not about believing,” she says. “It’s about noticing when something notices back.”
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The Deep Seam
It is tempting—very tempting—to believe that leaving a difficult situation is the same as escaping it.
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“The Opposition at the Meridian”
You were born into a generation that tried to reconcile dream and order.
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The Uncanny at Saltward Farm: Thresholds, Storms, and the Dignity of Burial
To understand how the novel works — and why it lingers — it helps to revisit what Freud, Heidegger, and Jung meant by “the uncanny,” and how their ideas illuminate both the story and our own lives.
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The Comfort of Good Reasons
“I hadn’t lied,” Sylvia adds. “That’s what makes it interesting. I had simply chosen the explanation that made me look generous to myself.”
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On Authenticity, Freedom, and the Work of a Life
That arrangement, we suspect, is one of the subtler challenges of the twenty-first century.
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On Ruskin, Lawrence, and the Perils of Pretty Words
A strange sort of prophet, Ruskin. One who trembled before the world he observed, but never truly entered it.
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Wren Writes Back: On Ruskin, Seeing Clearly, and the Strange Case of Poetry
But the longer I sat with it—the more I thought of what happened back in Falmouth—the more the line started to ring true.
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Veronica Speaks: On Ruskin, Murder, and the Beauty of a Shattered Truth
I believed a beautiful lie. And I acted on it.
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The Art of Seeing: Ruskin, Heidegger, and the Eyes of Faerie
In Faerie, Lillian learned that some knowledge cannot be seized. It must be befriended. The most profound truths often appear sideways, not when we demand answers, but when we relinquish our hold.