This is one of the most beautiful and exact descriptions of liberal education I have ever read. It was written by Leo Strauss.

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Gallimard's only comment upon rejecting Proust's manuscript of Swann's Way: "Too many duchesses!"

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Schumann was the best miniaturist since Couperin youtu.be/gSUUI3_W4eQ?si…

love the irl 'bromance' (or just romance) sub-genre in world literature—li po and du fu, melville and hawthorne. pasternak, in a letter to rilke (whom he had never met or spoken to before) said: "i love you" are there any others?

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Sokolov is probably the best living interpreter of Rameau. He excels especially at precision and clarity in ornamentation; his trills sound almost like a conversation between sparrows youtu.be/4giAu4BTv-A?si…

A morning routine: at 6am my landlord's cat announces that he's arrived at my door. I open it for him and he scratches my sofa on his way in that somehow seems to suffer no damage even over time. He leisurely inspects the room for any changes, then jumps to the sill of the open

Camille Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for violin and piano, one of the models for Vinteuil’s “little phrase” youtu.be/cC6rXwGOudU?si…

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