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Thoughts on Papyrus's title: Thoughts on Papyrus – Exploration of Literature, Cultures & Knowledge

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“And a man said, speak to us of Self-Knowledge.And he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of …


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Rituals [1980/92] – ★★★★ “He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied”(Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Adrienne Dixon [1980/1992]). This novel centres on a man who drifts through life aimlessly as though in …


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I am sharing today Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella” (Italian “the little bell”), which is the third of the six etudes in Liszt’s work Grandes etudes de Paganini, where the composer reworked Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.2 in B Minor for piano. The composition below is played by American pianist André Watts (1946-2023), and I somehow prefer …


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Cassandra at the Wedding [1962] – ★★★★ Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student who is supposed to be finishing her thesis and enjoying her student life. Instead, she is an emotional and mental mess, a state that no one sees and only her twin sister Judith guesses. When the date of Judith’s wedding approaches near, …


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A Boyar Wedding Feast is a painting by Konstantin Makovsky that showcases a very important social event in old Russia, a wedding feast that united two prominent Boyar families. In a richly decorated room, the lavishly attired guests (with gold trimmings in their clothing) are caught in the key moment of the event – the …


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