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If a mythical Tyler asked you that question “What have you been reading lately that you learned from?” what would be your answer? The distinction is between “reading edifying works, rather than works that challenged me and taught,” the key is the latter, so answer the question! Marginal Revolution

The Secret Pulse of Time

Designer name to come Sent in by our friend Philippe (whom we met back in August), who wrote “You need to see this cover…” I’ll go a step farther: if you teach, you need to show this to your students when you discuss the basics of graphic design. Repetition, balance, contrast, etc…they’re all here. The …

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The sounds of sirens

Three fine examples of the ability to Keep Calm and Carry On, letters to the editor in the November 1940 Musical Times (“Founded in 1844, published on the fifteenth of every month”). The German Blitz had begun on September 7, 1940. “Feste,” mentioned in the second letter, was the pen-name of a Musical Times columnist. …

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William Faulkner on peace

Reading page after page in Proust’s The Fugitive on remembering and forgetting made me recall this passage from William Faulkner, which has lurked in my mind since I first read it in college. It’s from a conversation with students at the University of Virginia, March 13, 1957: [M]aybe peace is only a condition in retrospect, …

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