HeyJaredMosby Woods
"What forbids us to tell the truth, laughingly?" -Horace. Mosby Woods is a writer in Portland, Oregon. https://www.amzn.com/stores/Mosby-Woods/author/B0BNCB3XMM
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Notes on Anna Akhmatova (opens the original)
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I read György Dalos’s book The Guest from the Future, about Anna Akhmatova’s meetings with Isaiah Berlin. Her belief that those encounters helped start the Cold War has a poetic truth. I wanted to know more about her life.To educate myself, I organized Akhmatova’s life into phases. I traced her poetry, reputation, and relationships with several other major figures, each a galaxy. These notes are a beginning; I am still learning. The blunt and dubious oppression scores are my guesses of state pre
I Took the Bridge. I Have Complaints. (opens the original)
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Before I discuss Thornton Wilder’s novel set in colonial Peru, consider this passage by Gabriel García Márquez:“Although no one knew it, he owned a house. It was full of dogs that could add and multiply and the top floor was reserved for birds. But even in this kingdom he was lonely.… Finally he stumbled upon an adventure that combined the three great aims of his life: his passion for overseeing the lives of others, his worship of beautiful women, and his admiration for the treasures of Spanish
The Seizure of Power (opens the original)
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When Thought Police Lead Dissidents (opens the original)
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