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The Cost of Greatness
On Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", and what both can tell us about what some will sacrifice to become great.
Matthew Morgan
Jan 20
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"Fire Of Love": On living and dying well
What the shared life – and death – of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft can teach us about a "timely death".
Matthew Morgan
Jan 6
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December 2022
Marginalia ~ 2022 Highlights
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Matthew Morgan
Dec 19, 2022
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November 2022
Marginalia ~ The sounds of terror
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Matthew Morgan
Nov 18, 2022
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"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good
On Mike Flanagan's new series and the nihilism of insisting people are perfect as they are.
Matthew Morgan
Nov 4, 2022
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October 2022
Marginalia ~ The spooky season
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Matthew Morgan
Oct 21, 2022
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Unseen Terror: How uncertainty feeds our fear
On terror vs horror, the stories of Stephen King, and dancing with death.
Matthew Morgan
Oct 7, 2022
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September 2022
Marginalia ~ Understanding life backwards
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Matthew Morgan
Sep 23, 2022
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Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?
On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art.
Matthew Morgan
Sep 9, 2022
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August 2022
Marginalia ~ The Art of Doing Nothing
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Matthew Morgan
Aug 19, 2022
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Founders, Builders, Heroes: What we need to fix problems
On the courage required to face our problems and the strength needed to overcome them.
Matthew Morgan
Aug 5, 2022
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July 2022
"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul
How Philip Larkin's 1958 poem describes the sense of loss that haunts the conservative worldview.
Matthew Morgan
Jul 22, 2022
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