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two party nonsense
Orwell was a socialist. Maybe you knew that, maybe you didn’t. You’d certainly be forgiven for not knowing it. I find most of the people who bring him up nowadays are pretty far from socialism themselves, and so they superficially equate Orwell’s critiques of the Soviet Union in his two most famous works—1984 and Animal…
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aliens in our midst
Romeo & Juliet was a much better play than I’d remembered. So often when I saw it as a child, or when we watched it in high school, it seemed terribly cliché, though it must be acknowledged that the reason it may have seemed cliché to me was because the play was so impactful in…
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my samosa!
“That’ll be $3.75, please.” — “Wait, sir, here! Here’s three bucks. Just take care of the rest.” — “Oh, very kind,” I reply, as my unexpected benefactor gives me a smile and leaves. — “He’s a bit weird,” the clerk tells me. “He does this a lot.” — “Maybe so,” I said, and I wondered…
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Convenience Story Woman: A Review
Historically, I’ve had a hard time reading most fiction, but this last little while I’ve been getting really into Japanese literature. I’m not sure what it is about it: the themes, the style of writing, the other-worldliness of the stories—who can say? Perhaps it’s the fact that so many of the ones I have read…
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Familiar stranger
It’s a captivating experience to find yourself once again in a place you used to call home. It may look exactly the same, leaving you with the illusion that it’s only you who’ve changed. Or it may look different, and you’ll find something completely different, the ghost of an old friend or companion, contorted into…
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Child mind
Lately, I’ve been trying to be more mindful and present in the moment, and I saw something on the subway the other month that made me smile. It was actually pretty simple: just a mother and her daughter playing a game of “I spy”. The way they engaged each other was just so endearing! The…
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Monkey mind
There’s something about the way the light hits the buildings as the sun rises in the morning. When in daytime the light surrounds them as they stand proudly, as if immortal, at dawn they capture the light against the dark skyline as it fades away into obscurity. That is, it’s discordant with the nature of…
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a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
Recently I found myself in a bit of a hurry. I was headed to my mum’s, and had forgotten the clothes I’d packed so, instead of the subway, I called an Uber since I was running late. Being driven to Union station felt like a treat I seldom experienced. Relatively speaking, I rarely even need…
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a love note
Just a bit of housekeeping: My subscribers may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed. What was once El Philósopho is now (For the) Love of Wisdom, and the URL has been altered accordingly. Why did I do this? Well, the idea came to me one night when I was unable to…
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