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shapes of things: grim final discords
….at last the signs of death in the hollowed cheeks and nostrils and bared teeth. Enough? No. Lucretius does not stop there; he goes on, still with the same febrile, fascinated attention, to describe the disintegration of society, the sick … Continue reading
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nothing that ain’t: leaky vessels
The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in our unending debate in whether reason and logic can solve all our problems. But his verses were charged with agonizing doubts in his superb poem The Nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Rose Lucretius, Christopher Hitchens, Democritus, Epicurianism, Epicurus, Fernand Fau, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Leucippus, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Mac-Nab
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