Nietzsche and I go to the twilight
Please respond with a faith-filled “I do”.
Do you reject the academy? I do
And all of its works? I do
And all of its empty promises? I do
Excellent then. We can...
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An Investigation of the Poetic Form
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In a somewhat quixotic collection of eight chapters (my copy repeated the first 62 pages, hence the curious collation; the...
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