“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Jane Smiley
"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
Mark Haskell Smith
"The sand was littered with sunbathers laid out on towels, raw and pink and exposed, like sushi."
David Livingstone Smith
"The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence."
Zadie Smith
Pulchritude — beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
Genres
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Science & Technology
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SF
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