by Rachel Robison-Greene I can’t know for certain that you are a conscious being with an active mental life. I have access (I think) to my own internal states. I feel my own anxieties, indulge in my own joy, anticipate my own future, and remember my own past. I can’t do the same for you;…| 3 Quarks Daily
by Derek Neal Kazuo Ishiguro often talks about a scene from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre that has influenced his writing. In an interview on the occasion of his Nobel Prize in 2017, he mentions how “the narrator hides from the reader and hides from herself in the Charlotte Brontë books,” and how he also writes…| 3 Quarks Daily
Just a Little Time Just a little time with you upon the gleaming sea Just a little time will do and the time will make us free And yes, the sky is our bed tonight Just a little company can make a prairie small And to hear a word or two resounding down the hall…| 3 Quarks Daily
by Daniel Gauss While teaching English at a Yeshiva in the Bronx, I was surprised one day to become part of a theological thought experiment so creative and meaningful that it has stayed with me ever since. After recently learning that the universe may “die” much sooner than previously thought, I recalled that moment as…| 3 Quarks Daily
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Guess what this is, sitting on a counter in my office.| 3 Quarks Daily