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Book review: The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead is a novel published in 1943 by Ayn Rand about a talented and hardworking architect, Howard Roark, who has strong…
Fiction’s inability to reinvent the past
“Is it possible to make the experience and journey of faith fresh, as new and as linguistically unencumbered as it was to early…”
The paradox of chaos theory
"Before there was earth or sea or the sky that covers everything, Nature appeared the same throughout the whole world: what we call…”
Liebestraum No. 3 and the sublime
Liebestraum No. 3 is a piano piece composed by the Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt in 1850. It translates to "Dreams of Love" and is one of three…
What novelists should strive for (according to Ayn Rand)
“It was Aristotle who said that fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only…”
The philosophy of love
"The parched earth loves the rain / And the high heaven, with moisture laden, loves / Earthwards to fall." - Euripides
Seneca on time
Time is invaluable: it's finite, we don't know how much of it we have and we can never get it back. Yet it's easy to forget its value.
Prometheus who changed his mind
“After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he…”