Monday My wife Julia alerted me to an intriguing although somewhat frustrating article in Atlantic about the end of time. Drawing on Frank Kermode’s 1967 The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Megan Garber wrestles with an issue recently raised by The Washington Post: how do we live with constant reminders […]
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Do Endings Reveal Meaning of Life?
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Atwood vs. Unregulated Capitalism
Atwood’s dystopian novel is about a future of unregulated high tech capitalism.
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