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Golden Brown
E. Lomont, An Alchemist, 1890. Here’s a phrase you don’t read much nowadays: brown study. First cited in the sixteenth century (specifically in a book called Dice-Play), the expression—which describes...
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Fun, Games
Unknown painter, Melancholia (detail), 1528. It’ll be just lovely for you to play—it’ll be so hard. And there’s so much more fun when it is hard! ―Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna As regular readers of...
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How to Get Out of Bed
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1867, etching and aquatint on paper.In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote,At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a human...
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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree’s summit —John KeatsLast night I heard the singer-songwriter Emmy the Great cover “Who Knows Where the Time Goes.” It was...
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Steer Clear of the Hotel Know-It-All, and Other News
It’s this easy!I’m tired all the time, which is why I’m so popular. Reviewing Anna Katharina Schaffner’s new Exhaustion: A History, Hannah Rosefield unpacks the durable notion of exhaustion as a status...
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Golden Brown
E. Lomont, An Alchemist, 1890. Here’s a phrase you don’t read much nowadays: brown study. First cited in the sixteenth century (specifically in a book called Dice-Play), the expression—which describes...
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Fun, Games
Unknown painter, Melancholia (detail), 1528. It’ll be just lovely for you to play—it’ll be so hard. And there’s so much more fun when it is hard! ―Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna As regular readers of...
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How to Get Out of Bed
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1867, etching and aquatint on paper. In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote, At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a...
View ArticleThe Song Stuck in My Head
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree’s summit —John Keats Last night I heard the singer-songwriter Emmy the Great cover “Who Knows Where the Time Goes.” It was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Steer Clear of the Hotel Know-It-All, and Other News
It’s this easy! I’m tired all the time, which is why I’m so popular. Reviewing Anna Katharina Schaffner’s new Exhaustion: A History, Hannah Rosefield unpacks the durable notion of exhaustion as a...
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