Author’s note: The following is inspired by an entry in my journal reflecting on recent events at the office. After three and a half years of professional experience, I finally feel entitled to some opinions on how things ought to be done. Previously, holding such opinions would have been premature,...
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Joie de Vivre
All belongs to the genuine,
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Reflections on Progress and Poverty - Part I
Author’s note: This work departs from the traditional essay format. It presents a series of personal annotations and critical reflections inspired by excerpts from Henry George’s seminal text, Progress and Poverty. Certain excerpts will be presented without additional commentary, allowing the power of George’s prose to speak for itself; for...
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A Lament
How lonely is the branch with no bird to give perch,
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Children of Prometheus
Heaven determined that the cosmos be like a frozen sea,
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Suitors of the Sun
Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote attributed to Napoleon from a book I’d recently finished titled “Mind of Napoleon” compiled by J. Christopher Herold. “Everybody has loved me and hated me; everybody has taken me up, dropped me, and taken me up again. … Only this was...
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Willful Arrogance
There is a certain arrogance in man,
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A Lit Soul
Author’s note: This poem was inspired by a quote I came across online that I now know came from Werner Herzog’s memoir. I know nothing of the man, but the following quote had me thinking: “I’d rather die than go to an analyst, because it’s my view that something fundamentally...
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Moonlight
How perfect you looked beneath the moonlight,
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An Ashen Inheritance
Among a row of houses sat a solitary great house atop a high hill. This great house was an old house, by and large considered one of the “better” houses. Nevertheless, like all material things, it was not without its blemishes: in some of its support beams were termites; in...
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