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Miriam Jones wrote 4 months ago: Recently read John Banville’s Kepler. A beautiful novel, densely packed though short. It came … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Isobel Grundy, John Banville, Kepler, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Miriam Jones wrote 7 months ago: just doesn’t happen very often: Verlyn Klinkenborg has written a piece for the New York Times … more »

Tags: sff, Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times, Doris Lessing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Long Eighteenth

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the "machines of nature" – from the so-called Monadology, §§63–72.

Marc wrote 1 year ago: 63. The body belonging to a monad that is its entelechy or its soul constitutes together with the en … more »

Tags: Excerpts, Infinity, Leibniz, Machines, Nature, Philosophy, translation

Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Tyrol - Excerpt from Italian Journey

Marc wrote 1 year ago: Trento, the 11th of September [1786], morning. After wholly fifty hours of life and continual occupa … more »

Tags: autobiography, Correspondence, Excerpts, german, goethe, Sturm und Drang, translation, Travels in Italy

Johann Gottfried Herder in the Tyrol - Letter to his children

Marc wrote 1 year ago: Bozen. September 1st, 1788. All my dear children: Gottfried, August, Wilhelm, Adelbert, little Luis … more »

Tags: Bildung, Correspondence, german, goethe, Herder, Sturm und Drang, translation, Travels in Italy


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