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  • Fairy Tales: Honest Harshness, Wishful Hoping

    Folktales, bedtime stories, and reworked myths open us up to the power contained in the “amoral scheme of the world.’ Fantastic images can become mundane by having pithy morals at the end… but they can be reinvigorated and lead beyond… Continue reading

  • Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings

    “Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading

    Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings

  • Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com… Continue reading

    Irrationality: Factual Fictions

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading