for 25. 12. 2021
… … How strange to find that Christmas carols can also go out of fashion, though few musical traditions would seem to be hardier perennials. Good King Wenceslas, who ventured out into the deep, crisp...
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… … … The single most intelligent virtuoso sentence I read this year was in an anonymous book review in late October in an offline, print-only publication. The lives of the rich and beautiful are now...
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. . . It should be of the pleasure of a poem to tell itself how it can. Robert Frost, 1939 . It is of the pleasure of this website to both make and point […]
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… … … They are out there and high up a long way from the electricity grid, the inspirations for the artificial indoor lights of this season. They are there just as art is — for art’s sake, and no...
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The tiger mural is a reminder that our most ordinary actions, from shopping to pumping fuel ( above and below ) are being included in data-gathering for AI everywhere. In an old Chinese philosophical...
View Articlefor 31. 3. 2024
… … … Climate change, climate confusion. No snow at Christmas. The land was all khaki, brown and shades of defeated green — as if swaddled in military camouflage for a Christo spectacular. Someone must...
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