June 2012
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Talking Death, Magic, and Hoboes with Lapham's...
Lapham’s Quarterly is a journal of big ideas. It takes its lead from Cicero’s observation that “to know our history is to know ourselves” and, with writings from the past, proves “that valuable observations of the human character and predicament don’t become obsolete”. Each issue explores a single theme using archival material, newly commissioned essays, and “history’s underutilized scrapbooks:...
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Have you ever noticed?—people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably...
– Donald Antrim, The Verificationist
Obviously this is great, and it out of nowhere reminded me of Angela Chase: “I mean if you stop to think about chewing, like what it really is, how people just do it, like, in public?” (1:07 on the link)
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