“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…
“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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Today’s lyrics are becoming darker in tone, simpler in form, and more centered on the isolated self. What does that say about the culture singing along? Popular music is one way a culture expresses its values and rehearses its moral vocabulary. By looking at song lyrics from a particular time and place, we can get…
