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The Violinist Who Solved the Ancient Riddle of How the World Holds Together
This essay is adapted from Traversal. She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes and tubes of paint are scattered about her — paint she has spent years mixing into the perfect shades of blue to color a world’s…
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How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin (February…
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Tolkien Reads from “The Hobbit” in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder
“He was Gollum — as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes.” J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) firmly believed that there is no such thing as writing “for children” and that creative fantasy serves to set the ageless human imagination free. Nowhere was Tolkien’s ethos more perfectly enacted than in…
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