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Perennially First Actors
Little matter when in Time, most live as if they are the first chapter.
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Tolstoy on Shakespeare
It seems that Leo Tolstoy rejected Shakespeare; likely essentially because he wasn’t Russian, or Tolstoy.
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Those profoundly few who are consciously aware that most everyone else is not.
Degrees of “sleep” and dreams.
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An Evil Confusion
Literarily versus literally evil.

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LOTR > or < JRRT
Can LOTR be more than JRRT?

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The Worse of the Worse
ICE

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Weltbild v Individuum
That it is not some universal world explanation, world comprehension, but the development of the individual.
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Darwin < > Thoreau
Compare Charles Darwin’s and Thoreau’s experiences and views, indeed “philosophis” of nNature.
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As a face shameslessly lies…

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Even the deepest ideas and insights of books must need be subordinated to the inner life.