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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Favorite Novel
He imagines what they think about while walking in silence behind him, and he imagines what he would do if he looked behind to find his children…
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The Meaning of Plato
Sometimes eternity reaches down its pointer finger and scoots us in the right direction.
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It is not so much Hysterical Realism as it is Hysterical Hysteria
Or, long forgotten drafts from the prehistory of the Borges Review of Books
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Four Unfinished Novels of David Foster Wallace
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Rod Dreher, Fool for Christ
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Egel Stutt's Solitary Painting
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Three Sisters: a Kijk Folktale
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The Last Christmas of Dallop, New Hampshire
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A Kijk Folktale from North Ciscaucasia
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The Maid and the Castle
Ocean liner staffs in the 1960s were the most concentrated and serious population of poets in the world.
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Margaret Valéry, Ethnologist
Her passion for ethnology didn’t sway her father, who refused to let her travel to north Ciscaucasia, so she waited and read and dreamt of walking…
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Three Sisters: a Kijk Folktale
Kijk elders have a story about the Dolmens of Ciscaucasia. Tevfik Esenç told it to me one morning as we walked through Gaziosmanpaşa in search of what…
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Gerald Murnane's Christmas Card
Murnane is with Henry James in the small class of writers whom I have never read because the idea of them is too wonderful to sully by reading.
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Concerning Our Patron, Sir Peter Blanchel Dalyrist
We begin our acquaintance Sir Peter Blanchel Dalyrist at the start of the Slow Desertification and the end of his marriage to Pilve Jõeäär.
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On the Composition of Principia Mathematica
They came to the supper table after a fruitless afternoon to find there Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, deceased 212 years previous but sitting…
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The End of Chance
Swordless and without a living adversary, I imagine Cirzpisława’s students saying in their best imitation of the master, “Untrue? Perrrrhaps. Not a…
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