Category: Randomness
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The Raven and the mysterious circumstances of Poe’s death

Edgar Allan Poe reinvented “mystery” in literature and influenced thousands with his plutonian art, but nothing has been as poignant as the dark enigma his death comprises.
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Secrets

A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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No one haiku

No one
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The beauty and the beast -Machiavelli’s The Prince

The Prince, a work involved in mystery and extrapolations, that has been mixed and confused with the nature and character of its own creator
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How to win an election

Roman politics was not a game for amateurs, especially in times of dissolution of republican norms, breaking down of democracy and transition to an empire, under the rule of absolute power and despotic will
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Bilbo’s Last Song

Guided by the Lonely Star, beyond the utmost harbour-bar I’ll find the havens fair and free, and beaches of the Starlit Sea
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The picture of Dorian Gray

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view
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Humanitarian wars?

This book is beyond a philosophical discussion, it has the strength of a testimony, by someone deeply involved in a cause not considered lost, but extremely important to be idealized, romanticized or sublimated
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Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence
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A Hunger Artist

Trying to figure out the moment we are all living is not for the weak minded, not for the faint hearted. If I had to describe it in literary terms I would say we live “kafkaesque” times