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The End of Politics
The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is suspicious, the living soul is retrograde! —Dostoevsky’s Razumikhin in Crime and Punishment ...
Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine
The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss. She perches there, bent knees to chest, to gaze the gray and...
Ignatius to the Romans
Be silent. Hush. Take up the sound of ooze like oil from olives that the presses bruise. Or be the sound of fresh baked loaves, the sound of seeds...
