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Annual Special: Favourite Books of 2024
+ films, series, and amazing people I encountered this year.
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Why Was Walt Disney Buying Books in Nazi Germany?
... or how Caspar David Friedrich's paintings and the German Romantic movement inspired Disney's Bambi.
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GΓ©ricault: What Happens When You Lose Hope
Deconstructing β€˜The Raft of Medusa’: A true tale of hope and despair.
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Eastern Spirit, Western Mind: How to See the World Through Poetic Eyes
Parallels between the lives of Rainer Maria Rilke and Natsume Sōseki and their path to poetic genius.
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Brodsky: On Grief and Reason
Essays by Joseph Brodsky
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Archetypes of Creativity: Director, Clown, and Poet.
From Faust: A Tragedy, Book I, Dedication and Prelude on the Stage.
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Welcome to Genius & Ink Library πŸ“š
Recent volumes: Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi, The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche and much (much!) more...
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How to Use Your Enemies
β€˜Enemies are of more use to the wise man than friends are to the fool.’
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Petrarch or Dante: Who Will Guide You in Life?
Note: I am currently reading Joseph Luzzi’s book on Botticelli’s drawings of The Divine Comedy.
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Jorge Luis Borges: Why literature is ahead of science?
β€œWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.”
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How to Read Like Leonardo Da Vinci?
A reader should be careful with his reading diet and try not to contaminate himself.
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Undressing The Allegory Behind Lady LibertΓ©
Reading the concealed references in Delacroix’s painting.
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