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[NOTE. One of the noble traits in the lives of classic heroes was the enduring reverence in which they held the preceptors of their youth their mental parents. Ancient history has given us interesting records of the recollective veneration for those...

In his short story “On Exactitude in Science,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a guild of Renaissance cartographers so committed to precision that they created a 1:1 scale map where “the kingdom was the size of the kingdom.” Later cartographers found such...

TO ENTER ANISH KAPOOR’S “Leviathan,” erected inside Paris’s Grand Palais in 2011, you walked through black swiveling doors. Once your eyes adjusted, you began to see. A giant red world unto itself, the structure looked from its...

“Chinese Stage Shows.” Cigarette Card. Source: Digital Collections of the NY Public Library. Introduction I would like to preface the following research note by dedicating it to any of my readers who enjoy a good Kung Fu comedy.  If you are a fan of...

← Older revision Revision as of 09:51, 13 September 2014 Line 85: Line 85: *** Simplified: 福无重至,祸不单行 *** Simplified: 福无重至,祸不单行 ** English equivalent: Opportunity knocks only once. ** English equivalent: Opportunity knocks only once. − ** Meaning...