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The word caesuras comes from the Latin caesura, which means “a cutting” or “a break.” It is built from the verb caedere, meaning to cut, to strike, even to kill. The term Caesarean section is commonly believed to come from the birth of Julius Caesar, but this is almost certainly a legend. The real origin…
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At times, reading Walter Benjamin, or reading about him, brings me back to that afternoon when she was cooking in the kitchen. The copy I had was from the school library. I remember a renowned local art historian, during some gathering, dismissively calling the library collection “wretched,” unaware, perhaps, that John had asked the library…
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I first encountered the accordion gate not as an object of nostalgia in films or photographs, but as a concrete entity, a noise-emitting presence. On humid mornings, the clatter of steel folding open was part of the street’s language. These gates were neither antique nor modern; they simply were. In shopfronts, in back alleys, they folded,…
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