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The Purposelessness of Modern Work
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On the Humble Haiku
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I Solemnly Swear
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The Corruption of a Character
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The Poetry of Sound
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The Response to Pain
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The Corruption of a Character
How Peter Jackson destroyed Tolkien's Ideal
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The Expansive Nature of the Russian People
As exemplified in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
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The Idiosyncrasies of Morning Routines
Why how you take your coffee or tea matters
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First We Feast
On the loss of holiday festivities
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An Ode to Bagels
And where to find them
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The Response to Pain
Thanks for reading The Palimpsest !
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The Ethics of Hunting
When I was eight years old I watched Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier and read a biography on David Livingstone for the first time.
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