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“What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?” (MacBeth, IV.i) crack of doom, day of judgment, doomsday, Bloomsday Ragnarök (Old Norse: “final destiny of the gods”)=death of Odin, Thor, Loki, Marvel comics; Ragnarökr or Ragnarökkr (“Twilight of … Continue reading

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910 This is one of the classic novels of existentialism, but (without disrespect to Rilke) I feel like this is a book you have to read at a certain time of life. (It makes sense—existentialism is … Continue reading

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