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  • Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?

    Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0

    It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

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  • The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?

    The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0

    Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s

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  • Mark Twain’s Top 5 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life

    Mark Twain’s Top 5 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life0

    Mark Twain was a prolific writer, satirist, humorist and lecturer, and he always had some sort of quirky, sometimes ironic, wisdom on just about everything.  As the author of books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his prominent place in literature has been forever cemented in history. Here are five Mark Twain

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