Part 1 ‘Shakespeare and the Nature of Man’ by Theodore Spencer. Part 1: Theodore Spencer’s Shakespeare and the Nature of Man (1942) is a seminal work that explores how Shakespeare’s plays reflect and engage with the evolving philosophical and psychological understanding of human nature in the Renaissance. The central theme of Spencer’s book is […]
The Writer says: “A recurring motif is the inability of characters to fully articulate their desires, fully understand what their experiences mean, leaving much unsaid.” Yet, her practice of inquiry, whether in the formal context of her spiritual practice with “fellow travellers,” or in personal and professional encounters and explorations has developed over time and
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A digression that could become an obsession or maybe another lesson in poetic expression Marguarite Duras was known to have said, “To write is to try to find out what we would write if we wrote,” which Irene Vallejo, in her book Papyrus, notes is to move from the infinitive to the conditional and
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On the Myth of the Fountain Pen It was a Parker 51, burgundy, with a gold cap. My father gave it to me when I was twelve, the Christmas before Cory disappeared. I remember the feel of it—its weight, the smoothness of the lacquer, the way the nib glided, effortlessly inscribing my first, urgent lines
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Introduction to Isabella Sinclaire and The Way I Write Isabella Sinclaire is a writer, thinker, and explorer of the imaginal, whose work traverses the intersections of literature, philosophy, psychology, and personal inquiry. Holding a PhD in these cross-disciplinary fields, she approaches writing not merely as a craft but as an ontological commitment—a way of unraveling
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Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing “as though, in order to begin writing, one did not have to forget or otherwise suppress most of what memory and reminiscence have meant; as though the entire matter of memory, reminiscence, recall, recollection, reverie, and repetition were not an endless overture arising out of an absolute past, incapable
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Isabella and the Zibaldone Isabella sat by the window of the ‘borrowed’ flat just off Charing Cross Road. She was flat-sitting for her friend David, who was on a three-month-long research sabbatical in Rome. The late afternoon sun spilled across the room in warm, slanting beams; the air tinged with a quiet melancholy, as though
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Imagine stumbling upon an old, weathered notebook filled with fragments of stories, cryptic notes, sketches of worlds, and half-finished thoughts—a treasure trove of possibility, mystery, and inspiration. That’s the spirit behind The Lost Notebooks of Isabella Sinclaire, a writing project that unfolds in layers, evolving over time through a series of blog entries. Each
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Introduction In the rich tapestry of Latin American literature, Gabriel García Márquez’s “100 Years of Solitude” stands as a towering work, weaving together reality and magical realism. In Chapter 15 of Gerald Martin’s biography, titled “Melquiades, The Magician,” we find a profound reflection on Márquez’s approach to storytelling. This reflection offers a unique perspective on
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The pale light of yesterday is the illusion to be dispelled. The shining through illuminating all is not a diurnal time sense. That incandescent transparency always is. There is no slippage between today and tomorrow, like you thought. Nothing to dispel, although it appears so. You stood around, ad-libbing the witness. Yet you clung to
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