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A Frankly Silly Beginner’s Guide To Shakespeare
18 Sept 2026 Watch the Ten Pound Traveller here: https://nebula.tv/jdraper/ten-pound-t… Get 50% off Nebula here: https://go.nebula.tv/jdraper — CORRECTION: The phrase “dead as a doornail” can be traced back much further than Shakespeare, to the 14th-century work “Piers Plowman”. […]
Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges – Ilan Stavans
11 Jul 2019 Dive into the mind-bending works of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose work pioneered the literary style magical realism. — What would it be like to have a limitless memory? Can the meaning of life be found … Continue reading
The Impossible Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
9 Jun 2021 The short stories of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges are unlike those of any other author. Despite an average length of only a few pages, each tale is packed full of mind-boggling impossibilities of physics, philosophy … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”
9 Nov 2025 #booktube #ai #sf This month, we read stories about AI. The Reading List | • Here’s What We’re Reading Next Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” | • Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids … Continue reading
Sophia Stewart, the Mother of The Matrix, shares the how The Matrix and The Terminator are connected
Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography
The Mixtec script looks like pictures. It’s a writing system. How does it work? What happened to it? Here’s what makes their glyphs unique, even how their usefulness outlasted colonization. Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_… Check my sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e… Group to … Continue reading
