While literature can seem helpless in the face of history’s cataclysms, it proves far more durable than the events that seem to overwhelm it.
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Lit vs. the Evils of History–More Debate
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How Fantasy Saves Our Souls
Great fantasy can always be seen as oppositional, pushing against prevailing modes of thought and opening up portals into new human possibilities.
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The Little Texas Senator that Could
What should we make of Ted Cruz’s use, in his quasi filibuster, of “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Little Engine that Could”?
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Quixote’s Battle for Imagination
In a short poem about about Sancho Panza and one of the windmills, Scott Bates describes Don Quixote’s sidekick as common sense reality robbing life of imagination.
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