Inner Landscapes (Essays)

The Art of Teaching...

…or how to teach art to teenagers.

Dec 15, 2024 •

Vashik Armenikus

Yousuf Karsh: Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Photographer-Philosopher who took portraits of Churchill, Einstein, Hepburn, Elizabeth II and countless others

Dec 8, 2024 •

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Rilke: How to Change Your Life

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Nov 17, 2024 •

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Nietzsche, the Armenian language, and the Search for Meaning.

The word ‘wisdom’ in the Armenian language is ‘imastutyun’ (ee-mas-tu-tyoon) which literally translates as ‘meaningfulness’.

Sep 9, 2024 •

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Losing My Library: The Poetics of Space | 🍂 Footnotes #10

In this edition: Umberto Eco, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ripley, Bulgakov, Terence Malick and (of course) Seneca.

Aug 25, 2024 •

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How Alexander the Great Taught me How to Live

At the age of 33, Julius Caesar stood in front of the statue of Alexander the Great and wept.

Aug 11, 2024 •

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Pierre Hadot: Reading as a Spiritual Exercise

This article is the third part out of a three-part series introducing my read-along, which begins in January 2025:

Jul 28, 2024 •

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My Reading List for the Next 10 Years

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Jul 14, 2024 •

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Seneca: Excellence of Mind Cannot Be Borrowed or Bought.

Jun 30, 2024 •

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Rescuing Books from British Pubs | 🍂 Footnotes #9

In this edition: Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Bocaccio, Carlo Rovelli, Victor Hugo and Peter Jackson.

Jun 23, 2024

Kierkegaard: How to Sculpt Your Own Soul

Yesterday I was clever and I wanted to change the world; Today I’m wise and I want to change myself.

Jun 9, 2024 •

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From Homer to Nabokov: What Every Writer Fears

Why there will be no second Hugo, no second Tolstoy, no second Proust...

Mar 17, 2024 •

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