I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Literature Mean Shoes
The pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent – what a rare relief.
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Discomfiting Obscene Pure Rarely Show Translation
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
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Different Talent Vocation
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane.
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Passionate relief Sacred
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
BENJAMIN MOSER

Madness Mathematics Reason

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