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Cavafy: Exquisite and cryptic poetry

A victim of homophobia, warmongering and the cancer that pursued him until he succumbed, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is a famed Greek-language poet whose work was barely read during his own lifetime. Despite which, his greatness would come to be widely recognised.   Antonio Paneque Brizuela    Ignored […]

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The paradox of the immaterial

Is the mind, and all that it beholds, an illusion, as some materialists hold? And thus, all the concepts of physics, such as time, a necessary illusion―chance, causality, and much more?   Nigel Pocock   This writer is an unashamed dualist, seeing the mind as an emergent reality, a product […]