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Mercury’s Light: Souls Who Did Good for Fame
(Paradiso, Canto VI):Mercury, Justinian, Theodora and the Rome as the vessel for Christianity
Sep 21
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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The Irreversible Step: How to Choose the Right Direction in Life
(Paradiso, Canto V): Vows, Iphigenia and the beauty of our understanding
Sep 18
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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Between Two Doubts: Absolute and Conditional Will
(Paradiso, Canto IV): Indecision, Plato's Astral Idea, and Conditional will
Sep 14
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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Inner Landscapes (Essays)
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The Art of Teaching...
…or how to teach art to teenagers.
Dec 15, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Yousuf Karsh: Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Photographer-Philosopher who took portraits of Churchill, Einstein, Hepburn, Elizabeth II and countless others
Dec 8, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Rilke: How to Change Your Life
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Nov 17, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Nietzsche, the Armenian language, and the Search for Meaning.
The word ‘wisdom’ in the Armenian language is ‘imastutyun’ (ee-mas-tu-tyoon) which literally translates as ‘meaningfulness’.
Sep 9, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Letters 🪶
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On the Inner Citadel (Part I)
(Letters to the Ancients #5)
Aug 26
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Vashik Armenikus
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On the Empires of the Mind
(Letters to the Ancients #4)
Aug 12
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Vashik Armenikus
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On the Importance of Change in Life
(Letters to the ancients #3)
Aug 5
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Vashik Armenikus
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We Build With Our Brains, Not By Hands
(Letters to the Ancients #2)
Jul 29
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Vashik Armenikus
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Book Reviews
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Annual Special: Favourite Books of 2024
+ films, series, and amazing people I encountered this year.
Dec 29, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Why Was Walt Disney Buying Books in Nazi Germany?
... or how Caspar David Friedrich's paintings and the German Romantic movement inspired Disney's Bambi.
Dec 1, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Géricault: What Happens When You Lose Hope
Deconstructing ‘The Raft of Medusa’: A true tale of hope and despair.
Nov 24, 2024
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Eastern Spirit, Western Mind: How to See the World Through Poetic Eyes
Parallels between the lives of Rainer Maria Rilke and Natsume Sōseki and their path to poetic genius.
Nov 10, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Counter-Narcissus: A Short Guide to Seeing Truly
(Paradiso, Canto III): Symphony of Empyrean, Piccarda, Constancy
Sep 11
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
10
What you hold dear in your heart will echo in eternity
(Paradiso, Canto II): Explaining the universe, Dante and Beatrice staring at the moon
Sep 7
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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Are we Gods?: In Search of Divine Within
(Paradiso, Canto I): Apollo, Glaucus and Marsyas
Sep 4
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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How to Examine Our Conscience
(Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII): St. Augustine, Eunoe, and the end of Purgatory
Aug 31
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Vashik Armenikus
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Lisa Statler
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Losing My Library: The Poetics of Space | 🍂 Footnotes #10
In this edition: Umberto Eco, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ripley, Bulgakov, Terence Malick and (of course) Seneca.
Aug 25, 2024
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Vashik Armenikus
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Rescuing Books from British Pubs | 🍂 Footnotes #9
In this edition: Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Bocaccio, Carlo Rovelli, Victor Hugo and Peter Jackson.
Jun 23, 2024
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🍂 Footnotes #8 | Why Dictators Like eBooks
In this edition: Solzhenitsyn, Christopher de Hamel, Ali Abdaal, Nikos Kazantzakis, Steven Gambardella, Armand D'Angour and others
Jan 7, 2024
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EP. 3 Tolstoy on Science vs Religion, and the Meaning of Life
In this episode, we're delving into a rare book by Leo Tolstoy, written during his darkest times.
Dec 20, 2023
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Vashik Armenikus
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