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Beyond Gender: Ghulāmiyyāt and Fashion in Abbasid Culture

Studying past cultures presents a unique challenge: understanding how different they were from our own, but in their own right. Take modern-day Syria, Egypt, and Iraq — do their cultures resemble those of the past? It’s a tricky question with no straightforward answers.

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With this promise and its dubious comparison, Yang opens up her world of cultural memory, her geographic and emotional landmarks, and uncertain-yet-loving family relations.

Books: Painted, Dressed, Fashioned

This specific minimalist design stands in contrast to the warmth of a jumbled colourful bookcase or library in an English parsonage, where the illustrated covers, each strikingly different, create a charming picture. It belongs to a long tradition in the French literary scene where the books are dressed in uniform, simple covers so the reader will not be attracted to the book only by the visual appeal of the cover.

Review: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang

Ultimately, this is the merit of Babel: its timelessness and applicability in modern-day politics.

So, Your Girlfriend’s Superpowers Turned Out to be an Allegory for Autism

She is cold because her powers are ice and rock. She is abrasive because she is superintelligent. This is all well and good. What was not well and good was when she sat you down and said: “I do not actually have magic. I am just autistic.”

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It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified

– Friedrich Nietzsche,

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

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Time needs a watcher, and when you close your eyes / the voices sound the same.

 

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returns to the cave / rolls back the stone / remembers again / what it is to die

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