ORWELL, DANTE, AND THE EARTHLY GODS 2025
Thirty-second Canto. Dante and Virgil watch as Count Ugolino frenetically devours Archbishop Rugiero’s head—two souls who suffer their condemnation in Antenora. Illustration by
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As Gustave Flaubert once said, "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." Perhaps that’s what keeps me going, even when I feel invisible to the world. Writi
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We are frogs, birds, and lizards, crashing against the mirrors of our own illusions.
As I write, I can’t help but think that we, humans, are also frogs, birds, and lizards, crashing against tires and mirrors of our own illusions. Perhaps if we listened more to Ae