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The trees around the meadow sway lightly in the breeze. Beneath them, the tall grass is brighter than usual, cast in artificial light for...

I like the way people talk about those who are losing their minds. They say I’ve got my head in the clouds, and I imagine I actually do....

Beneath Maastricht University’s (UM) Inner City Library, where sunlight and bird songs are shut out by thick walls and doors, lies a...

In 1963, Hannah Arendt pointed out that portraying all Nazis as pure evil is incorrect. But next to incorrect, it is also incredibly...

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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your...

A few months ago, I read a book called Perfume  by Patrick Süskind. Although I have read other books since then, I keep thinking about...

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Attempting to escape from the capitalist society in which I live- gosh, my life is so hard- I've endeavored away from consumption this...

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On February 11th, the world’s literary community commemorates fifty-nine years since one of the finest female poets decided to take her...

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Nothing screams ‘feel the positive in the negative’ more than Shakespeare does in many of his intensely morbid plays as he crushes our...

You are born into this world as a vessel of a singular perception, an individual entity in possession of an individual consciousness. You...

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